Volition

The landscape is dry, it's dusty.

Where the wind kicks up the loose dirt of spilt words. And the air

Is thick with animosity.

One must cough or suffocate.

The atmosphere is frigid.

Where words are bitingly cold.

In places the precipitation of gossip

Soaks the ground.

If one chooses to find their way.

One would be trudging through

Large puddles of hateful and resentful moisture;

Things spew'd from the mouths

Of hearts discontented.

Discontented with themselves and their lot.

Upon which they project onto others;

Often close to them

A lot of which they chose,

Because,

there are certain directions

They also had chosen below conscious awareness.

By the map of choices made

There they find themselves;

In their misery.

So they are (not) justified to play the part

Of the Victim in this passion play of

Self-created unreality.

And yet without their victim script

Of a life of volitional discontent there would be

No passion play.

No mental illness.

And the world would be in

Universal Peace.

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Kilmer Poetics Journal