Seeing What One Wants To See Poem by Raj Arumugam

there is anxiety, pain, and change
and pursuit and activity and growing and boredom
and all that each refuses to face
and so seeks solace and comfort through diversions
through a hundred thousand mind-creations
and affirmations;
and dragging oneself into the mire and obscurity
insists on dragging others into the pit too:
there is no clarity; no seeing directly…
it is all tradition and revelation and what one is told
and repetition - loud, loud repetition;
it is all myth, belief and pursuing what should be
rather than seeing what is there:
each drags down the other, and all sink together