Thursday, 6 February 2020

Eye (I) Exam




If you
Were 
Inextricably
Part of 
The whole..

As
Each of
Your 
Composite cells
Makes up
Your body...

Could you then...

Continue
To live
So decidedly
Detached..

Still convinced
Your
Indiscriminate
Individuality
Operates
In a 
Vacuum...

Rendering
The
Assaults
Of your
Choices
Benign...

Rather
Than acknowledge
Their
Reverberations
Across 
And 
Throughout
The web of
Life?

What 
Convinces you
That Life
Was bestowed
Upon you
For the
Ongoing
Generation
Of
Unimaginable
Indifference?

What
Led you 
To believe
That 
Your 
Life
Matters more
Than 
Any other
Life?

That 
Your suffering
Is beyond
That of
Any other
Living being?

That you 
Should be
Exempt
From
Carrying
Your share
Of 
The collective
Suffering?

Not then....

To run 
From

Or
Hide
Your head
Up 
Your ass..

To 
Ignore
To
Numb...

Nor
Retaliate
Condemn
Oppress
Or
Invalidate

There's
No
Plot
Scheme
or
Conspiracy
Dictating
You're
Separate... 

Take
A moment
Each day
For 
Yourself
To 
Extricate..

While
You pause
Embrace
In yourself
All that 
Screams
Desolate...

Maybe
It's not fear
Of what 
You think
That 
Has you hesitate... 

It's the ladder
You climb
The wall
You placate..

What 
If 
Your
Participation 
In 
The 
flow of life
Has been 
To 
Castrate

While
You 
Bent over 
Backwards
Creating 
An image
Designed to
Ingratiate..

Marching
Orders 
And 
Invisible drums..

Your steps
To
Placate

Death 
&
Destruction
Courted
Through
Media..

Your
Blind date


R. O'Neill (February 06, 2020)

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