Bullets before prayers

Bullets before prayers
the tangible
before the intangible
The practical
provides security
though it  also obstructs progress

Realism grounds us
while dreams
transports us 
to the heavens

whoever said
you can't have
your cake
and eat it too
lacked the understanding
of "monism"

We are
who we state
ourselves to be
and
though
we must live 
in the here and now

to thrive
we must always 
be reaching
for the stars