Musings....

The mind is a funny thing...

It rejects people, thoughts, places, events
   and childishly attempts to eradicate them
  it tries....
    but is never successful...

Hidden in the cavernous places
   in the dark abysses 
are those thoughts that would,
            if let loose, 
threaten our pretty world.

We pretend...
   we try to make excuses
for things we strive to imagine 
do not exist.

We paint on smiles,
   and cordial greetings,
 and happy events, and even
 times of worship...

We play a convincing role -

   we are the epitome
of emotional and
   spiritual health....

But from deep in the darkness
  those hidden things
whisper to us...
  call to us....
to say their name
  and give them life...

And we Pretend.