Don’t Let Reason Win In Every Case

To reason is our highest human gift,

to let our lesser qualities have reign,

and to promote our intuition, lift

and elevate our instincts, is to stain

our characters by giving vent to thought

that is not thought at all.  And yet we’re made

with instincts for a reason, they’re not taught;

they’re reflexes, to keep us safe, displayed

to us in crises when the mind is weak

and reason takes too long.  So when they shout

inside your head, do not delay, don’t speak

to them with patience; act and hear them out.

And panic when you see the swirling vortex,

ignore the rational cerebral cortex.