Two great and mighty warriors faced each other on the field of battle

The carnage wreaked its vengeance on those they led into war.  The dying and dead lay about them and blood flowed over the land.

They eyed each other, swords drawn, knowing for one or both that this may be the last few moments of existence.

One looked around him and saw his comrades no more.

He realized he forgot why they were even here on the field of battle.

His eyes met those of the other warrior and there was no fear in either one.

He flung his sword to the ground and said, “I shall have no more of this.  Let thy will be done.”

The other warrior was surprised at the surrender.  He too turned and felt the wrath that had displayed its fury.

It would be an easy kill, thought he, but my opponent is no coward as I saw him fight.

He surveyed the landscape and looked at his enemy.

“I too have had enough.  Go in peace.”

“He doesn’t deserve any exemptions from the natural laws of human nature”

Words penned by sleepyeagle.

The words Sleepy Eagle wrote gave me pause for reflection and I thought about my life and the lives of others and the statement holds true to my experiences.

No one gets away with anything.

We may not go to jail.  People may not discover.  Somehow, someway, misdeeds always come back in one form or another to haunt.

That is how we learn.

Life itself can be a prison for those who transgress.  Paranoia and fear strike those who know in their hearts they have done wrong and realize the punishment is yet to come.

Remorse and regret helps, like getting an early release for good behavior, but the punishment still awaits.

We refer to it as “punishment” but in reality it is an awareness of the disturbance we created on a spiritual plane as it comes back to visit us.

“What is life?”…….

….”It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”….Crowfoot

Words spoken by a man who comes from a peoples who learned by studying life itself and living among that which was created.

How can the wisdom of such as these be ignored?

They were inspired and taught by the greatest teacher of all, life itself.

It is a thought that many do not appreciate.

For those, I say ignorance is not bliss.