The Price of Delusion

The epitome of ignorance
is denial in the wake of personal delusion,
a landscape shaped to oblige
the desperate, flailing arms of remedy:
to create a world that placates the truth
in order to maintain self-belief.

We are fragile creatures,
and often self-belief, whether valid or deluded,
is all we have to base our strength upon,
and many people unbeknownst of this,
act in aberrant ways to uphold their delusions,
for they are lost without them.

When one creates a world,
one needs to maintain it, ferociously,
for all that holds life together is woven within it,
and one slip can reduce life to emptiness,
so I do understand those souls invested,
trying no more than to survive themselves.

The irony is truth is far easier to bare,
considering what one has to do to uphold a ruse,
yet fear rules many hearts,
and a desperate mind is neither practical nor reasonable
when it comes to the self,
and all those feelings of insecurity and worthlessness.

Accepting the true self, with all its faults,
is necessary in self-realization,
the process that ultimately releases us
from our self-inflicted bounds,
the limitation in which we believe
and consider in all we do and say.

That freedom has a cost,
but certainly not as costly as a state of delusion
that feeds life with a stream of lies,
each defending the sad truths hidden,
and in the end an empty and pointless life ensues,
without learning or enlightenment.

Tony DeLorger © 2016

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Tony DeLorger

Full time author, freelance writer, poet and blogger since 1999. Twenty one published works, past winner of 'Poet of the Year' on HubPages, 'Poem of the Year' on The Creative Exiles, writer for Allpoetry.com, Google+, tonydwtf.blogspot.com.au
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