A Change in the Mind Changes Matter

If we don’t work on them

they’ll age with us

They’ll work us up

They’ll age us

at the heels of our joy

always

Crowding our spines

Creating a bend in our minds

like dendrites desperately sprawling

indelible emotional scarring

so we examine

the unexamined psyche

sluggish, but not stagnant

reluctant, but not refusing

we’ll understand

the underbelly of our behavior

or be cornered in the crannies of chaos

with a changed perception

comes an alteration in the world within

thereby changing the material world

so without

Once tolerance develops and craving becomes paramount to basic survival needs, the ability to stop of one’s own volition is nil. It is a twist of the mind.