POLITICAL Poem: Duality of Man, by Blaine Mauer

Sometimes I wonder if I really am human, or just a product of evolution
Sometimes I wonder if it’s okay to dream, or if it’s only okay to not be seen
Sometimes I wonder if it’s safe to love who we love, or if it’s only safe when it’s not too much
Sometimes I wonder if there’s a purpose to this life, or if we all are just here to live and die
Sometimes I wonder if we all just gaslight ourselves in order to belong, or if it’s because society always assumes we are in the wrong?
Sometimes I wonder if we all mean what we say, or if we only mean things in order to not complain
It feels like we live in a world with double standards, because we do
It feels like we can’t be who we are because god forbid we all face the truth
It feels like we forget that people are people, and that dishonesty is the root of all evil
Why do we start wars when we can’t even fix the ones inside ourselves?
Why do we hurt others when we can’t even heal the history that we have dealt?
Why can’t we just love each other for who we really are and not for what we have?
Why do we hate on things we don’t understand? Is it because of some kind of duality of man?
Why do we destroy others and cause hurt when instead we can just be grateful for the earth?
We fight ourselves constantly, why do we do that?
Why has society proven to us time and time again that the only way to make a change is to start from within, but instead we continue with the most heinous of sins?
In order to create change, we first have to take accountability for our own mistakes, so why are we so scared to look ourselves in the face?

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