Hampering

How do we know some humans aren't attracted to phone screens like some bugs are attracted to lights
That the freedom isn't the same
That the future won't laugh
That spontaneous combustion is on the decline

Is the unknowable and the unescapable the same
Or can I escape not knowing
The glowing brethren of the species
The bastardized version of glowing
Life not more than choices, and not being able to have the cake too

Eye of the beholder the mystery element
The ingredient, I'm not wanting to look at completely for some reason
If the obstacles to my freedom were just random bits of confusion and mixed up information?
If the man was mia, and the only police and dea rested in my head
Well, I guess I would consider myself silly and fickle

Do I stare at my phone looking an end to hesitation
Do I enjoy the distance from the people
As I formally introduce myself informally
Or do I just do it cause I know not why
Cause I follow the turns of the flock, even if we're heading for a plastic nuclear volcano

Reviews

[Jessica Lynn Polley]

I think we can escape not knowing, I think you already have. This is a very thought provoking poem. It is full of questions I often ask myself and it is very well composed. It is hard to look at anything completely really for where there are ups there are certainly downs. So many many people are not conscious of the world around them and it is as if they live there life in a coma like state because it is easier than seeing the truth. It is funny that you mentioned that whole cake saying because every time someone says that to me I think well why the hell would I even want the cake if I can not eat it? Just so that someone else does not get it? How selfish and absurd. It is good to think these thoughts and feel this way even if it is uncomfortable because seeing the ugly truth is so much better than simply not seeing...
I love this poem, great write!

[Ben]

Thanks for comment Jessica, Actually regarding 'the cake', I totally see it as pivotal and central to everything. Because if our choices are blind of the deaf to silent sacrificed alternatives...

I think there is something about indecisive / decisive that people really mean to evoke when they mention 'well you can't have your cake and eat it too'

I think its worth mentioning, as Epictetus or epicurus did, forgot which one, that when you give your money, you no longer have it, when you give some knowledge, you not only still have it but are apt to have increased through the discourse and dialectics practice.

I never asked someone about their past and future and didn't learn about humanity, human nature and all the obscure details about it

The only way to be sure you are seeing everything is to see nothing, I mean to relax the entanglement of whatever perceptions, impressions sort of dominate and guide things into the way they are, I think open innocent, un-assuming, wordless learning eyes are the best to see new things with.