Tag: poem

Masked by Illusion

They mask us up

We play along

Dancing in step

To their safety song

While all along

It’s being over played

By numerous parties

Under-the-table-paid

Yes

There is a deadly virus

But not the one

Being put on display in front of us

The truly fatal one

Is less easily seen

Through all the smoke and mirrors

Ranging from onerous to obscene

Large amounts of wealth

Power and position

Are shifting hands

Behind the scenes

In a massive plan

Binding and gaging us

With one hand

As the other

Rakes in the gold

That will eventually leaves us

All out in the cold

Unable to function

Without government direction

Freedom is an illusion

That is slowly loosing its hold

As tyranny takes over

In the form of a safety cover

E.A. Fussell

11.18.2020

Taking Others beliefs as your own

It takes courage to admit we don’t know the answers to certain questions. It takes even more courage to admit we don’t even know the right questions. But if we ask the wrong question we are guaranteed to get the wrong answer.

Ponder this for a moment: Think of a current problem you are facing. How did you come to define this problem? Did it magically appear in front of you with no influence from outside forces? Or were you heavily influenced by the media, or your family, or friends, or your employer, or your teacher, or multiple sources?

Do you have time to analyze the problem, really analyze it? Or are you relying on what other people are saying without doing your own research? And if you have done your own research have you looked at all sides of the question? Or just the side that bothers you most?

Looking at all sides of a question allows a problem to be solved in various ways. Deeper questioning allows for the most effective answer. Most of us don’t have the time, inclination, or self-discipline to research and analyze questions the way they should be deciphered. We simply pick which story sounds most plausible to our belief system and agree with what others are saying, adapting their words as our stance.

I challenge you to take one problem in your life and look at it from all sides. For a moment, set aside your emotions, beliefs, and pre-conceived notions. Ask a question related to the problem, gather information from various sources, ask another question, gather more information if needed, continue asking and gathering until you get to an answer that you believe is the correct one. Going five “why’s” deep is an effective way to get to the root cause of a problem

Refuse to accept what other people say as your truth. Research, analyze, ask, repeat. Until you have an answer that is your own. If it aligns with your original position that’s okay, at least you know it to be true for you. But you may find that you come up with a completely new position or approach.

In order to get to the root of a big problem you will need courage to face your own truth. Asking and answering the right questions can be unsettling and frightening as you stare the root cause of a problem in the eye. Sometimes we find it’s our own eye we are staring into. Sometimes it’s the eye of a family member or close friend. Sometimes it’s the eye of the dregs of society.

But would you rather be fighting the real problem by answering the right questions or would you rather continue boxing with shadows?

E.A. Fussell

11.15.2020

Protect yourself

Why are you complaining

About people

Sucking the life out of you

When you are giving them

The straws

Stop allowing others

To drain your energy

Lower your vibration

And dull your sparkle

Be an environmentalist

For yourself

Ban straws

And stop complaining

E.A. Fussell

11.15.2020

Here go I

Did you ever feel like there was a big joke happening and you were missing the punchline. Somehow everyone got it, but you. That’s how I feel when watching the political circus in any country.

Did you ever wonder what would happen if everyone took their attention off of the power struggle between candidates, parties, countries, if we stopped participating in their elections, manipulations, wars? If we focused on ourselves and taking care of our immediate surroundings in a peaceful way?

Ah ha, therein lies the crux. At our core we are creatures of conflict. Peace is difficult to obtain within our own selves so how can we expect it outside of ourselves? Internal conflict occurred when our spirit decided to enter this body of flesh and experience being human. From that point a battle began between our peaceful spirit and our active mind. The mind likes to attach to people, ideas, beliefs, things. With attachment comes ego. With ego comes desire for power. With desire for power comes struggle and corruption. Struggle and corruption create a political circus in any country. And there you have it.

Is it possible for us all to live in peace? Not all, not in this life. In this life a very few will learn how to transcend their internal battle to overcome their busy mind and get to their quite core spirit to live peacefully. Some of us will experience it in glimpses or brief interludes as we continually seek it. Most will lose the battle too lost in mind and ego to find their way or even recognize that they are lost.

As for me, I will continue to wear my dunce cap as I turn and go down a path to try and find my way past my mind to the center of my core so that I can live internally peacefully as the circus rages without me.

E.A. Fussell

11.12.2020

❤️Thank you❤️

Sacrifices

You understand them

Nightmares

You lived them

Bravery

You displayed it

Endurance

You conquered Hunger

Torture

And conditions unimaginable

Honor

You deserve it

Veterans

You gave remarkable service

Gratitude

Unending respect and much love

E.A. Fussell

11.11.2020

Impact without knowing

Engagement

The catchphrase of promotion

Why

Not everyone

Wants to be an open participator

Some like to be observers

I’m learning not to be concerned

About it

If I touch even one person’s heart

Mind

Soul

If I lift even one person’s spirits

If I make even one person

Feel not so all alone

And if that one person chooses

To keep their thoughts

To themselves

I am still blessed

By blessing someone else

Engagement happens

Even when acknowledgment

Is not exchanged

Do not let promoters convince you

That you have to have

Engagement to be successful

Convince yourself

To create whatever you desire

Without concern for comments

Or even ever knowing

Whether someone was

Positively impacted

By your creation

Express your truth

Without flavoring it

Toward promotion

Engagement will happen

Even if it is unspoken

E.A. Fussell

11.10.2020

Drowning in illusions

Information

So much of it

How to absorb it all

How to decipher it

True

False

Opinion

Fact

It is so difficult to determine

What the real message is

One thing is for certain

It is seldom what it appears

And is often

Deviance cloaked in purity

Pandering news

Appealing to baser instincts

Stirring up arguments

For distraction

As money shifts hands

Behind the scenes

A world more corrupt

Than it has ever been

Will it get better

Or continue spiraling askew

My bet is on the latter

Until consciousness is born anew

E.A. Fussell

11.10.2020

Skating on thin ice

What would happen

If we moved our friendship

To romance

Maybe it would work

Maybe it would be a disaster

We are so wrong for each other

You keep things just in case

I release things as soon as

There is no immediate use for them

You want to spend your retirement

Working on a new business venture

I want to spend my retirement

Just being

You are a social butterfly

I am a social avoider

You own lots of things like

Property in multiple states

I own nothing except

What I can fit in my truck

(In one load)

You consider me your best friend

I don’t believe men & women

Can be best friends

They are wired too differently

How could they ever

Understand each other well enough

To be best friends

You post political expressions

I post nature pictures

Yes, I admit

There are ways in which we click

We come from the same culture

And there is comfort in that

We’ve been friends for decades

No need to explain our pasts

We both like to travel, cook, garden

Adventure appeals to us

We believe in helping others

Taking care of family

Patriotism

But still I hold out and insist

On remaining just friends

Good friends are hard to gain

And would surely be lost

If romance wasn’t a winning game

I keep thinking

Maybe it would work

Maybe it would be a disaster

E.A.Fussell

11.09.2020

Opening the door

Standing here

Wounded

Afraid to move forward

Stuck in the pain of the past

Not realizing it until I tried to move

“What if’s” dulling my motivation

Clouding enthusiasm

Bringing up past rejection

All the work I’ve done on myself

I thought the pain was gone

I was sure I was ready

To start a new chapter

Placing my hand on the door

Ready to open it

Fear washes over me

Engulfing me

Reminding me

Of all my failures

Sadness sets in as I watch my hand

Retract itself from the handle

Standing here

Looking at the door

Hoping I can overcome these emotions

Go ahead and open the door

Step into the unknown

Before I turn and go running

Back to the safety of the known

E.A. Fussell

11.08.2020