Perception

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    Perception

    Process of observation of everything.....
    Absorbing, like a sea sponge,
    Everything.
    Existance as a whole is puzzling.

    A question with no answer like a war without an end.
    Casualties, heroes, and fools
    emerge from within its depths.
    Ponder my roots.
    From exactly where do I stem;
    In what do I rest?
    What is real and what is pretense?
    Real is nothing
    and pretense is common.
    But both are left without definition;
    As is LOVE,
    so directly related to those from which I came.

    And if it was LOVE in which I was concieved...
    Then, in innocence, born....?....
    Why then love must be the embryo of innocence!

    In time, to be shattered as well,
    by change, or fate, or God.
    But what are these?
    Change is forever; is unending.
    But what are fate and God?
    Truly insecurities?
    Like those smothering the human race and recessing it....
    Are we again pretending?
    - again reassuring ourselves that there is indeed
    a predetermined plan for life and a reason to BE....
    To exist without purpose is terrifying.

    Fear is blocked by walls of pretense;
    And so fate and God are born of fear.
    But fear is not of hate;
    Which is ignorance and stupidity...
    - Fear is of simplicity.
    It ensures our emotional capability
    to love.

    Ignorance and stupidity are hate
    but in some unanswerable way
    touch hands with love
    in a cycle... as is everything.
    Man is a creature of mind; of habitual function
    and we seek for an opposite;
    a closure...
    If one cannot hate,
    how can one love;
    and the opposite???

    For my conclusion is simply
    that life consists of love, and only that;
    And other emotions are intertwined,
    somewhere within the cycle lying inside
    each whom grew out of it,
    and existance is truly LOVE...
    ours to percieve from which angle we will.

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    brado1962 commented on Perception

    06-21-2009

    Moving, lucid, captivating, and fully expressive. I have read many of your works and you have great talent. Your poems touch and move a lot of people. You must continue to write, for to not write would be to deny the world the joy your words bring.

    denraylind commented on Perception

    05-14-2009

    I like the way you capture the questions and perspectives.

    Archer commented on Perception

    12-04-2008

    Mizblaze- I was drawn to your poem by the title, as perception, perspective, and point of view has been a lifelong study of mine. I loved "Perception". I just recently joined the site. Please check out my "Reflections" of the same theme.

    dahlusion commented on Perception

    12-04-2008

    all of humanities menacing minds would fall limp under this one—if only they would read it

    When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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