How To Escape The Matrix (Poetry)

We, as a species, can do

the most beautiful things

yet in a state of survival,

we instigate pain.

Selfishness and greed

become the new reign.

Control is the currency

not what’s in the bank.

Money keeps

the people in place.

When fear, hate, and division

are the name of the game,

freedom occurs

when we see

we’re the same.

Yes, diversity is

a much needed thing,

yet we’re leaning too far

only one way…

It looks like we’re different

but we’re actually the same.

The frame of a bird

has both a right

and left wing.

If you’re locking into

the fear and division

you’re part of the problem

not the solution.

If your beliefs or your news channel

keep you divided

hating on others

believing we’re sided

then I assure you, stranger,

(or whoever you are)

you’re keeping the system

alive and well.

The only way out

is by embodying love.

To start seeing yourself

in everyone else—

Including in those

still locked in this place

of fear and division

of “others” and hate.

Trying to love

when there’s so much pain

is much harder than warring

and joining the rage.

And I know, and I know…

it sounds cliché

but love is the answer.

Love is the way.

Art As Therapy (2020) by Amy Frank