WE ARE UNQUESTIONABLY SEPARATE, COMPLETELY ALONE

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

The Gap,
chasm,
dense smog,
imprisoning walls.

Our beliefs ensnare us,
close us down,
short-circuit the forces of life
flowing to and, when we are believing ourselves impeded,
cutoff, separate and alone,
urgently manufacturing from our isolated, marginalized energetic footprint
more and more illusions to sustain our sentence of severance from All.

This is the great, inherited disease of building our lives upon unquestioned beliefs.
These beliefs have become comfortable to the mind,
and we can find almost complete agreement among others of our kind,
so we just keep up the illusion
and keep suffering in our contrived,
agreed-upon alienation, separation and confusion.