I am

I am

I am therefore I think

Critical thinkers sift random thoughts

A hammer shattering locks

To open Pandora's box

Life and its conflicts

Tolerance should be commonplace

Yet we struggle with acceptance

Emotions appear a deceptive ruler

Of actions we perpetuate on life

Beliefs our true governor of thought

Emotions a symptom or curse of them

A final determination of which

Path diverging in woods

Theory true to be proven with time

Offensive and defensive both

Symbiotic and parasitic

Nature in earthen temples

Possibly our moment when we become

A slave to these our mortal passions

Feeble attempts to stay in stasis

Formulating if we are at one

Or a part of both

Or the other

C. Lin Rawlins Revision April 2002©