LEAVING DISTRACTIONS BEHIND
LEAVING DISTRACTIONS BEHIND
Distractions abound
Both inside and out
Why is it so trying, so hard
To ignore them, opt out?
Bombings, wars and earthquakes
Financial crises and chemtrails
The MSM news outlets
Work to keep us biting our nails
The Masters of Mass Control
They have their hands on the knobs
The arrogance of centuries
Makes them unapproachable SOBs
But they suffer, too!
In their lack of love, and of joy
Their ‘priorities’ blind them
To what many of us now know and enjoy
But Oh! how trying it is
To turn away from their noise
When most people around us
Believe them, butnot their own Inner Voice
Our family and friends, too
Though ‘meaning well’ I admit
Try to rein in our Light
Get us our ‘craziness’ to quit
Our libidinal urges as well
Ever powerful, most basic
Tempt us down egoic paths
Those physical pleasures —
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