Blinded By Living Poem by Janice M Pickett

Birth creates confusion
Slipping from spirit into an earthly encumbrance
Nine months waiting in a watery confined space
knowing we are starting again anew

Birth brings trauma
being pushed and shoved into a school of deceit
Learning again with false ignorant directions
Meanings worthy but misguided

Growth stunted by confusion and deceptive instruction
A battleground for the wise and stupid alike
A reduction in options open
A heart willing to accept both the false and the true

Damaged by failure
Hurt by man
Faith lost in the calamity of it all
Self worth no longer a priority

It was really so simple
It could have been so easy
but no-one listened
or they forgot how to listen

So now we struggle with the simplest things
eating loving caring trusting
Our God made it so easy
Man made it so complicated

Where did it all go wrong?
How did it happen?
Can we get back the simplicity of it all?

The power is within us
and we could change it all
If only we opened our eyes