Fear of not knowing

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  Ok Waleed March 19th, 2023 10:24

  Nationalism truly will destroy the world

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    sorenbarrettMarch 19th, 2023 10:59

    Thanks for your review and comment Ok Waleed

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  Doggerel Dave March 19th, 2023 17:52

  I’ve always taken the view that my reality is subject to many factors, including but not exclusively my size, senses and unconscious choices I make with respect to the information I choose to take or exclude.
  You have poetically given that more depth, Soren. Thanks.
  

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    sorenbarrettMarch 20th, 2023 14:15

    Thank you Dave you hit the nail on the head. What got me going was the thought - Would I know I was in pain if that was all that I ever felt, or would I know I was cold if I was never warm? I have talked to people that grew up with not adequate clothing or bedding that said as a child they did not know they were cold because that was just the way it had always been.

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  Bella Shepard March 20th, 2023 13:43

  I think dear friend that each day is an exercise in dispelling our fear of life, by virtue of the distractions we invent. We create our own reality without the benefit of understanding the consequences. I sometimes wonder if our evolution has fallen short, or if our biological thinking apparatus has reached its limit. This poem dives deep and I love it!

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    sorenbarrettMarch 20th, 2023 14:23

    Dear Bella thank you so much for the review and thoughtful comment. Yes I think that sometimes we are simply not sensitive enough or maybe just don't care enough to notice. At times we don't have the experience to know, that can be excused. Our senses are so limited

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  L. B. Mek March 21st, 2023 03:07

  'Through blind eyes I see the invisible
  
  Truth I hear through a deaf ear
  
  Sensations of logic inexplicable'
  explaining feelings, as like
  defining perspectives
  betwixt blinks we swerve reality's
  one moment's monumental
  is but a forgotten blink's, trivial
  yet we seek anchors to meaning
  aspire to comprehend
  ephemeral happiness
  within a lifetime of strife, asking
  why?
  screeching our rage from that first
  breath
  I think
  it all begins, with our misunderstanding
  of procreating's, purpose
  we give exams to people, to drive cars
  yet anyone can have a child, and dumb it in the bin...
  we fail to comprehend
  it is not a child
  but a Person, we're taking responsibility for
  an entire living breathing human being
  destined to mark humanity with their deeds, or lack there of..
  tell me friend
  what business de we have bringing a child
  into a world, if we never had parents
  to teach us and show us what to do
  modernity has warped into a cynical degradation
  where parentless children, birth
  parentless children
  assuming love and Mac'd happy meals
  is enough, to curate a person...
  used to be, everyone knew
  'it takes a village to raise a child'
  so now we're left to path a life, where:
  'Feelings of wellness I fear'
  depending on flags, idealistic politics and hollow beliefs
  to curate our anchor to meaning and worth...
  how futile? to what end?
  every one of us, every one
  learned cruelty from those, we're told
  know, what is best for us...
  better, I think
  to realise as early as we can
  in this river of life, we pebbles
  swim alone
  whatever aesthetics, we identify with
  what's inevitable
  is that we all bleed, one colour
  and cry the same tears
  anything and everything that opposes
  that Truism of existence, we must refute!

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    sorenbarrettMarch 21st, 2023 05:47

    Dear L.B. to what depths you have dove in this small piece. You have struck at the heart of this existential issue. Uncertainty pervades this life due to societies change and the lack of a firm foundation upon which to build. You certainly had the vision and the hearing to get to center of this humble piece and the eloquence to express it so well. Thank you so much for taking your time to so thoroughly review it.