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The Internal Conflict

My internal conflict is what to do with this internal peace, and these internal thoughts.

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The Internal Conflict
Aubrey Hughes

Within my own presence,

I cannot will myself enough

to become tied to the corruption of society.

And yet, I continuously fall short of that statement,

as I cannot exclude and/or refrain enough

from the same corruption of the same society.

My internal conflict is the thought,

that breaking common societal standards

is the way to achieve a common societal welfare.

The thought that I must be able to connect to every major entity,

in order to initiate true change without out-setting one entity.

Be able to appeal to everyone,

as I come only in peace.

Surely enough, fed up with the current illogic,

and failure to properly administer justice and education.

But yet still peaceful, calm, and empathetic,

aware of the logistics that have gotten our global society

to its current state.

My internal conflict is what to do with this internal peace, and these internal thoughts.

Whether to harbor them or to release them.

My internal conflict is the notion that truth does not exist,

but yet still striving for the concept of it.

It is having knowledge of the world's deceit,

and wondering whether to defeat it,

or to become its deceit.

My internal conflict is one,

that should ring familiarity with every soul.

One that should be felt internally by

every child, adolescents, adult, and elder.

The thought that the world is not what it is portrayed to be.

The thought that the world is more beautiful than what it is portrayed to be.

The thought that our purpose here is a lot deeper than what it is portrayed to be.

And the thought that the power we hold is more powerful than what it is portrayed to be.

All representative of my internal struggle

to define this place, within this mass universe, as my home.

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