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Ventations

Such an odd and incredulous thing

When you choose to give up your humanity

Your personhood

Your heartbeat

The rise and fall of your chest

As your lungs take in

This constantly polluted air.

 

The exhaust from humanity

The perishable efforts

Are none.

 

How many of us have already given up

The face of hope

The walk of life

Yet continue to flop across the earth

As a fish out of water,

A proper environment

Dug out and exposed,

Chopped down and rolled over,

Creating this

New World

Where the words ‘take what you need’

Are never uttered.

 

Where the concept of helping those in need

Does not involve you

Unless directly connected.

Even then it is seen as an obligation,

Not just a reaction,

A simple kindness when you have

Extra.

 

When did this die?

           When can I die?

 

So this choice to physically leave,

Finally be rid of this disaster we have come to call life

And Government

And Responsibility

And Religion,

And Teaching…

 

All of it fabricated by faulty,

Hardly even there

Morals.

Designed to keep in check,

To placate,

To keep distracted as you believe you are

Being ****** dry…

 

Well you are,

We all are.

Yet

Here, with this ability to communicate

I am better off.

 

There are so many people in the world

Waiting for the bandage to be ripped off,

Enduring those moments of

Eye watering pain

So that the wound may find air,

May find healing breath and

Action to make as

One.

 

There is more than enough for everyone to be

Happy and

Well taken care of.

So that not another soul feels lonely,

Another belly goes malnourished.

Enough so that every person will never have to worry

About sustenance again.

 

What would this world order look like?

 

It could be filled with innovation

And design

And the hopefully True Nature

Of Humanity to thrive

Together,

To build on each others successes.

Instead of this endless jealousy,

This backwards mentality that we are on this earth

Alone.

 

That we are all meant to sacrifice each other to be

The last one standing.

Well if that just happens to be you…

Then what?

 

What happens now?

 

 

When you think you have everything you need

Except that saving voice,

That soulful touch,

That incredulous connection to another.

 

Where did it go?

It has been demolished,

On the wrecking site for years.

 

I do not want to wait for that time,

When things implode.

It is already bad enough,

I cannot walk through this

Fake and tired path

Anymore.

 

We are animals locked in conditions to

Mimik our true atmosphere...

When those barriers crash down,

Coughing up the dust and misery

You will be left with

Absolutely no understanding of the Earth.

 

Introduced to the earth,

Humanity would

Perish.

 

I am already alone,

Just let me go,

Though pleading useless,

As simply no one

Is Listening.

 

 

Sept 29, 2013

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