On What to Believe
In Houston, I see these billboards.
“Cancer we have you surrounded.”
I see featured head shots of doctors
Illustrated in a traditional style
Resembling presidents on dollar bills.
There’s other billboards
Emphasizing that cancer is losing the battle
Going extinct
By way of these great men
Running
These great facilities
That modern technology
Could only give us.
But
Dr. Bergman
and Dr. Vanderschelden
Talk about:
cancer
is not the one
going extinct.
Facilities
That are not great
Doctors
That don’t know
And an industry
That’s grown for over a century.
I see videos
That show the wealth of generations
Being protected
And I wonder
What these billboards
Were meant to advertise
To us
In the first place.
I wonder,
What to believe.
What a person believes
What a person accomplishes
What a person is regarded as
One affects the other.
I struggle for the truth
To lay the foundation for my beliefs.
Those beliefs guide my thoughts and actions
To whatever my accomplishments may be.
Those accomplishments or lack there of
Evoke feelings from others
That govern how I will be regarded.
If I see a poison world around me I might want to leave.
But
Huxley says that I’d only be changing my mode of existence.
If I take a side and rant and flame
Or
Organize and strike at the wrong
That I perceive
Would I be accomplishing the right thing?
Would my beliefs be in the right place?
Would this have the best impact on others?
Mother Theresa says that good is only done by giving support to good
Not by destroying what’s wrong.