What Do You Want To See? Poem by Raj Arumugam

what do you want to see?
you see what you want to see…
and then you impose it on others…
why?
because you want to feel right…
and why do you want to feel right?
you don’t know why
and you bring in justifications
to see what you see;
you get recruited
you join a group
to feel special
and create plenty of fury
and flurry
to get others to see what you see;
and you have revelations and indisputable sanctity
and you want to make the world see what you see:
nothing else but what you see
and why do you want to do that?
because someone did that to you?
but you see what you want to see
and then you set up structures to impose it on others…
and so you distort the world, and we all distort our minds
and so it goes…
it all started with what you wanted to see…