Sanity: accepting reality,
let’s call it. Law speaks of compos mentis,
mastering the mind. Sigmund Freud could see
males and females struck mad by the penis.
Fromm believed whole societies insane.
(He must have seen greed, guns and endless war.)
Auden knew our anxious age, just how vain
we are. Chomsky warns climate, nuclear
disaster will end us. Where’s salvation?
Pope Francis preaches sanctity for all,
not just for saints. Einstein’s revolution
in religion: pantheism (We call
it god in all). Let’s define sanctity
as honesty, seed of our sanity.
Roger Armbrust
July 8, 2016
