it is undeniable realization
that the majority,
if not all but a small
percent,
of people are absolutely,
totally,
completely,
terrifyingly,
petrifyingly,
murderously,
suicidaly,
alone
this is the sad fate
of every human being
ever to be born upon
this earth
my father said it best,
almost exactly as I said it above
to be exact,
but it took hours of
talking, years of
living, centuries
of inherited wisdom
to finally understand
the oppressive truth
of what he
realized
there is no happiness in money,
no satisfaction in power or position,
*** lacks emotion and emotion lacks
reason and reason lacks the passion
that we need to get up in the
morning
we are born
we live
and
we die
alone
never forgot this
never make the mistake
of thinking that even one
micro-ounce of genuine
empathy is not worth
more than a thousand
golden kingdoms
the ability to truly
connect with someone
is the most valuable
resource in the
universe
we build societies on pillars
of loneliness, and justify it
with science and god
all we need to know
is that we can achieve
all we need in a single
conversation
it is unknowably guilt-inducing
to realize that most people can’t
have conversation at one in the
morning with their fathers
most don’t have fathers,
others don’t know they do,
and the rest lack the will
to break down the barriers
of age and pretentiousness
this undeniable aloneness is the
shadow of my ethereal nightmares
not for its effects on me,
but for its tyrannical
grip on the every day
people I cannot hope to
help
May 14, 2011
May 14, 2011 at 12:49 PM UTC
it is undeniable realization
that the majority,
if not all but a small
percent,
of people are absolutely,
totally,
completely,
terrifyingly,
petrifyingly,
murderously,
suicidaly,
alone
this is the sad fate
of every human being
ever to be born upon
this earth
my father said it best,
almost exactly as I said it above
to be exact,
but it took hours of
talking, years of
living, centuries
of inherited wisdom
to finally understand
the oppressive truth
of what he
realized
there is no happiness in money,
no satisfaction in power or position,
*** lacks emotion and emotion lacks
reason and reason lacks the passion
that we need to get up in the
morning
we are born
we live
and
we die
alone
never forgot this
never make the mistake
of thinking that even one
micro-ounce of genuine
empathy is not worth
more than a thousand
golden kingdoms
the ability to truly
connect with someone
is the most valuable
resource in the
universe
we build societies on pillars
of loneliness, and justify it
with science and god
all we need to know
is that we can achieve
all we need in a single
conversation
it is unknowably guilt-inducing
to realize that most people can’t
have conversation at one in the
morning with their fathers
most don’t have fathers,
others don’t know they do,
and the rest lack the will
to break down the barriers
of age and pretentiousness
this undeniable aloneness is the
shadow of my ethereal nightmares
not for its effects on me,
but for its tyrannical
grip on the every day
people I cannot hope to
help
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