Time for poetry...The Root of All Evil

The Root of All Evil

The root of all evil is not money.

It is not anger.

Nor is it greed.

The root of all evil has a far greater seed.

It is the manufactured fear which has led us to believe,

safety and security have now taken leave.

Living in fear is how life must be.

Magnified, manipulated, and used to control

by forces who aren’t working for the good of the whole.

Insidious creatures that lurk through the night,

greatly afraid of the loving light,

as it will melt the illusion that might is right.

They rule by fear,

with elaborate smoke and mirrors,

and take great cheer

in saying, ‘Love isn’t here.

Here, there is just fear!’

Oh, the unaware they do think it’s so,

and do fall prey to more government controls.

For the creatures that rule the night,

enjoy making fear their only plight.

For within the darkness fear can grab hold,

and play with the minds of men we’ve been told.

A tangled web of deceit,

synthetic lies which are really cheap,

done in an attempt to hide the truth really deep.

But no matter what they do.

The truth will always ring true.

For the root of all this evil is absolutely clear.

It is built upon the fallacy,

that on Mother Earth we must live in fear.

Copyright:  Beverly Blanchard 2013

The Power of Suggestion

Every day we are bombarded by a tidal wave of information.  Most of it is irrelevant to our immediate lives, yet it influences our lives.  We buy products because we are told they will bring us happiness; make us look younger or healthier.  We run to our doctors because commercials suggest that we may have a particular illness, and if we get the latest pill we will be healed.  We blog, post to our Facebook accounts and continually talk about issues the media has presented as important.

We never seem to realize that we are allowing someone else to mold our minds and direct our thinking.  We also never question the validity of the information we are consuming and if you happen to have a memory you can become totally confused listening to the experts.  On day we are told something is good for us and the next day it we are told it is detrimental to our health and well-being.  One day we are told the economy is on the mend and the next it is nose diving.