Degenerate Consciousness

From the schools of business and war: lead with your strengths. We neglected our strengths for the immediately compelling drama of crumbling. The chemistry was primal. No one will ever know or appreciate you like that again.

The damage sets in: rape, wreckage, disbelief, and bitter lasting scars. Precious moments aborted by blunder.

What else can you call a squanderer of divine experience but a degenerate consciousness?

"Not everything that goes around comes back around - you know" - one realizes too late, and settles broken, desperate, defeated, and stripped soulless by a succession of fatal decisions.

Woeful creature! Others see your folly and know what you are supposed to do, but not you yourself.