The Dichotomy of Obscure Sorrows

Tossed by the ocean of life's inevitable kuebiko;
Ringing from the blows like the whole ensemble's taiko,
The redemption of agony gloriously self-supplants;
Life without calamity is like an anthill without ants:
The quest for meaning burns because we want what we don't have;
Since Eden travail gives birth to life;
ripping wide holes to calve.

Lachesism yearns for joy that is only got one way;
The universe shines clear in darkest night, 'til distortions of disfiguring day;
The Phoenix' against-grain reaction to death coronates it the most glorious bird;
The acquired taste is the richest and rarest; the obscurest the most precious word.
Common, easy feelings become sentimentally underrated,
But trials of star-crossed lovers forge tungsten bonds platinum-plated.

The wafting wonder of petrichor crests the apex of drought and storm,
And nothing like hypothermic fingers makes you celebrate just feeling warm.
In every form of suffering true philomaths find new joy:
Wherever there is evil it's working in Good's employ.
In the worth of such exchanges don't forget to valuate
Conformity to the Exemplar, the Kingly consecrated fate.

Don't squelch the lament; don't succumb to Liberosis,
Neither lose yourself in grieving, and so drink from the pool of neurosis.
Expunge the hurt and toxins, then cleave to the rod and staff;
Let wisdom guide the neuron's path that separates wheat from chaff;
And once it shows which trends toward life and which will be despaired,
Then drink from the cup overflowing, and feast on the banquet prepared.

And like a clam your pearl will gleam with  splendor past your scope;
Crystalized cruciform memories of when you thought you couldn't cope.
Just as a mollusk does not value the treasure taken from it's life,
Our labor's fruits we may not taste —only the jagged knife;
Our gems refract a higher glory than mere self-satisfaction,
The cross we're gifted pays the cost of another's benefaction.

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