Remain Ignorant Poem by Margaret Alice Second

The universe's too random, a colleague complains,
anybody can get cancer at any time for no reason,
I said but there IS a reason, we are all individuals,
but my remark is completely ignored as everyone
loves to believe it's a hostile universe so we need

Never accept responsibility for anything happening,
saying we create our own reality has no resonance
for my colleagues in a dream of being innocents on
a Shakespearian sea of strange happenings in this
material universe that came into being without

Need of planning or consciousness - suddenly one
day a form of life evolved by itself; as the animated
conversation turns in circles I decide to tune out the
sound by diligent earphone application in frustration
due to my belief thoughts and emotions determine

Our hormonal settings; the manifestation of illness is
a picture showing the physical effects of our choice of
thought and feeling; why listen to jabbering sounding
like childish gibberish when my ideas are ignored as
unwelcome in the extreme - I would have been

The victim of this noise which ignores me pointedly;
listening tomusic on my IPod is the only way to stay
sane in this place where most people deliberately
choose to remain ignorant…