The Keys

The Keys

By- LaVar D. Lard

To nurture the existence of the earth, the four elements were created; wind, water, earth and fire. These elements were necessary for the earth to grow and nurture life. Though, when God created man in his own likeness he created four elements that acted as the keys to life. These keys nurtured the birth of man’s existence and that would bring balance between them and the earth.

The first key, Time, was created to age the earth and it’s inhabitant to prepare it for the coming of mankind. It also acted as an unforgiving force of nature that gave everything a lifespan, making no man immortal. In making no man immortal the next key created was Life and Death. Life and Death, acted as one key, giving birth to mankind in addition to taking life away from mankind when their lifespan have run it’s course. The third key, Nature, was created long after man’s inception and brought agriculture, spring showers, May flowers, drought, and disease. Although plants, insects, animals, and fish were sharing the earth with man long before nature arrived, there came a time when man started to destroy the earth and created havoc amongst the seasons. Nature took revenge on man and made the summers unbearable, the winters unlivable, and disease a common phenomenon. It brought balance, because of it’s rage man became fearful and

The last key, War & Peace, formed out of spite for man’s deadly sins; gluttony, greed, pride, anger, envy, lust, and sloth. This key put man against itself as a punishment for not cherishing the life they were given. This key would be the catalyst to the destruction of all mankind, but as long as the other three keys are intact man are not destined become extinct.

The coined phrase “Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer” must have been God’s intention when he put the keys into four human beings cycling with the birth of a new key after the previous Key’s death. The keys are completely mortal human beings acting as the spark plugs keeping Time constant, Life and Death parallel, Nature at bay, and War and Peace balanced. Life as it is cannot exist without these four keys, so if one key is killed by another key, then all is on earth will be in chaos. So far none of the keys have ever met, nor have known of each other’s existence. Until some dare-devil archeologists put the Keys at peril.

Wound of War

The Wounds of War
(A look into the life of the author, the poet, the creator)
By- LaVar D. Lard

We all have battle wounds that tell stories, these wounds can be found; in our heart, on our skin, or in our actions. We cannot deny ourselves the truth that our past propels us forward and the choices that we make right now aims us in the direction that we want our lives to go. We call this being the captain of your ship and being the master of your fait. It’s taken me most of your adulthood to learn of this realism and then to prepare my life to be lived out just as I want it to be. In doing this I’ve realized that I don’t have time for all the friends I have made over the years unless they are valuable to my progress. I too have tossed family into the same boat, lacking to realize that they are a part of my past that is undeniable and essential to my grown. Though for some of my family I still have wounds of war that won’t let me forget many horrors of my past. For some people they can cover those scars in foundation or wear cloths that cover them up. For others they drink away their pains, hoping that their actions mask their pains and their past, because these are the ones who think that everybody can see their faults. There are those who smile, laugh, and dance away the thought of the wounds existence, hoping that they never find their way back into their lives. And as you know, my mother never gave birth to any girls, so nobody is covering up these wounds with foundations, but instead are drinking and laughing these pains away. When I realized this, I knew our pains resonated from the wounds of our past, the wounds of many wars we’ve experienced in our lifetime.

There were five wars that effected me and my brother’s life; the ‘War of Poverty’, the ‘War of Fallen Warriors’, the ‘War of Dead Daddies’, the ‘War of the Neglect and Malice’, and the ‘War of Money’. Some of these wars were more critical then others, but all of them had their lasting effect. A key player in all these wars was our mother, Brownie Lard, who had been the cause and comfort for the wars since our conception. She is now the proprietor of a new war that is brewing in our lives, the ‘War of Self-Centeredness’, which is still being fought out on a daily basis. What my mother fails to understand that her self-righteous decisions should be her own and affect only her. The factor that has been crushing her children’s lives for three decades now, is that she is blind of the effect her actions have on her children and how they will effect them for a lifetime. The saddest part of this entire system of wars is that she doesn’t seem to understand that her actions as a parent are crucial, because she not only teaches us, but if she is not careful about what she says or does in our presence she can scar us for life-no matter how big or small the action or word.