Deception, Lust, Disgust Poem by Spencer Zimmerman

*Our hands can be riddled with the distractions (cuffs, imprisonment) of our ambiguous thoughts. Deceiving ourselves with lust is in itself something of disgust. Handouts should be taken lightly or not at all. Conceptions of kicking up the dust have the effect of losing one's trust. And though you find comfort in love with all its relief, when the pain comes in, it brings you to your knees. From this, pressure forms stress and produce imbalance (cracks) in the psyche. Your identity becomes under attack from unseen forces. At this point, you are experiencing a metaphysical vivisection of the self-identity you've believed in and never questioned. When one becomes weary of not having control over its own emotions, one will begin to seek instructions on how to do so. These instructions come through the influence of experience with the additive of essence. An example, a philosopher experienced injustice and understands the root cause and the after effects. Through this experience, he can write and influence others. Experience has created an influence. Vicarious experience is becoming ever more desirous from my point of view because it allows me to continue to be averse to discomfort. The age of information, centered with the internet, enables one to be more vicarious than ever. There is good and bad that may come out of this.

1. A person can be influenced by others more readily and at the will of a mouse click.
2. A person is entitled to experience vicariously that of which they may not want to experience physically due to the discomforts it may pose. This is treated as a handout or ‘half-experience' and should be taken lightly or not at all, in my opinion.

Regardless of what I may think, everything is as it should be. Who am I to say things are not the way they should be? Who am I to tell others how we should be living? I am everything and at the same time nothing. Therefore, with thought, there will always be contradiction. The law of opposites is upon the threshold.