Creation
Resides in each one of us
It isn’t always beautiful
Or artful
Or interesting
Sometimes
It’s pure evil
Inching its way
Into our thoughts
Growing itself through
Emotions and feelings
Choosing actions
Manifesting consequences
Visible as circumstances
Thoughts
Feelings
Actions
Circumstances
Thoughts
Feelings
Actions
Circumstances
A never ending cycle
Since life began
What circumstances
Are you creating
What are you allowing into
Your mind
Are you choosing to
Live in fear
Surrounded by fires
Of foolish thoughts
Fueling angry feelings
Causing hate-filled actions
Leaving painful circumstances
It’s easy
To look at a circumstance
Get caught up in emotion
And allow the cycle
To start all over again
All sides
Feeling justified
In what they are creating
Black
Brown
Red
White
All believing they are right
Foolish arrogant egos
Screaming
Look at me I’m a victim
Look at me I’m a hero
Look at me I’m right
Look at me you are wrong
Look at me I’ll fight
Look at me I’m running
Look at me I have all the answers
Look at me you are ignorant
Look at me I’ll take what you have
Look at me I’ll stop you
In your tracks
Look at me
Look at me
Look at me
What if we stopped looking
What might happen
What if we allowed the anger
To rage outside of us
Ignoring it
Not allowing it to seep
Into our emotions
Not allowing ourselves to feel
Like we have to take a side
Any side
Simply ignoring the raging machine
Of hate-filled evil creation
The choice is up to us
Help the raging machine
Continue to exist
In varying states of flame
As it races across our country
Taking fuel through
Our egos need to be heard
As we scream
Look at me
This is what I believe
The choice is up to us
We can choose to
Cut off the fuel supply
To the raging machine
Stop looking
Stop getting caught up
In the emotion of it
Stop trying to justify
Choices of someone else
Stop judging decisions of others
Be responsible for ourselves
Our thoughts
Our choices
Our actions
The circumstances we are creating
Immediately around ourselves
Can impact the atmosphere
Can change the energy of the world
What if we were to
Cut off the consumption
Of rage and violence
Ignore it
Let it play itself out
Outside of us
It’s really not about us
It’s about evil
Always trying
To get a strong hold
Always trying to suck us in
Grab hold of our ego
Force us to take a stand
Make us feel like we have to choose
One side or the other
Just for today
Live your life the way
You choose to be seen
Without having to scream
Look at me
E.A. Fussell
05.30.2020
E. A. Fussell 