Remind yourself sometimes
as you walk contentedly down the street
thinking you are a god
how the world is not quite a very nice place
Somewhere now
right at this moment
some mobsters are slaying a man
and grind him on a meat grinder
Some poor girl
in a cage in some distant land
is waiting with horror for her next ******
Some drug addict
plunges a knife into his parents' chests
for just one more fix

Light is the absence of darkness

Be the light, at least for a moment
pet the homeless dog
stroke the flower
help the blind old woman cross the street
feed some desperate
send an SMS for a sick child
look around you
do something at least once that is not just for you

add a lump of goodness to the opposite bowl
of cosmic scales

I know that you don't give a ****
and it seems insignificant
a tiny light like a firefly
in an endless sea of evil
do it despite that
get out of your shell
of a cruel, pragmatic  twenty-first-century man
and do some tiny good deed
shine at least a little
before you are swallowed by the almighty darkness
which comes for all of us


to be light
is a reward in itself