Avoidance

so seldom
do we address
the issue
frightened, perhaps
by the shadows,
the underlying
darkness –

or is ignorance
a more comfortable
state: a numbing
defiance?

(I once wrote poems for Twitter, but it seems to have lost its charm. Image my own.)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

26 thoughts on “Avoidance”

  1. avoidance of issues comes from so many places … learnt from family and/or fear! But I find the more I step up and confront, the healthier and more open my life becomes 🙂
    Such a thought provoker VJ

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  2. I can really relate to this one, VJ. I avoided a particular “underlying darkness” for many years and once I came face to face with it, man, it opened up so much to me. Now I can look on some of my worst bugaboos with curiosity instead of avoidance. Oh, and has that made a difference.

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  7. I suppose there is ignorance and willful ignorance, which means the latter isn’t ignorance at all. Do we have a specific word for that? (I love the exploration of words in poetry.) Anyway, I think there is a lot of willful ignorance these days, to numb we are afraid to face as a collective. But it is a dangerous defiance.

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  9. We try to escape, because we can’t deal, and, running seems like, the only option we’d been, given, and, before we know it, we would be, escaping from, everything that happens in our lives, and, we, NEVER learn, to, face our, problems to try and, resolve, them.

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