#altruism
Optimism can be,
Very much fulfilling, or,
Exhaustingly bland.
Pessimism makes a,
Darkened cloud cover up the,
Shining, blinding Sun.
Cynicism blurs the,
Line between friend or foe 'cause,
Everyone’s corrupt.
Altruism means that,
I should help others without,
Pondering the cost.
May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM UTC
Acid smiles
Simple lucre, to a faster pussycat
Worth your was, thus a loose while
Sweet knowing you, with this and that...
Solemn kinds of whether?
Looking beyond you, the truth to a smile
Fashion forward, and surviving the gall to bother
A season of choice, to keep the better of rues of denial?
Talk to me...
The rose and the voice of alright, tonight
The liberty in a merciful love, merciless to we
Simple news for an irony's me; my accept, my slight...
Yours again...
Set to rights, the tale of seeking how
For a better lover, the risks of integrity
With hold or archaic powers, the speed of knowing...
Is a reaching us, a clashing must?
To voice the other wise, in these rages and fates...
A look for bests is the only way to discuss
A misery followed by charisma; a sense of privilege, curious in the shade
Where sincerity is a favored eye, if not concern
Spare intention, in the paces we further to skill
Life with a stern lip, but know an eye to worth...
With the love it is given, the swallow of pride, in hell?
Mar 6, 2024
Mar 6, 2024 at 10:35 PM UTC
I’m shirtless after
getting too hot in the best kitchen stool spot
It’s where the dog will leave me alone for a sec
It’s a weird winter
every year now, but they say the Great Lakes are
the best place to ride climate change out
It’s been too cold, now it’s getting too hot for this time of year
so the old Watkins Glen hoodie was too much
I almost ripped the front neck like an 80s girl
but I didn’t have the strength
If walks are still out of the question,
I better start doing physical comedy
around the house like Three's Company because
I said I was going to
We could have had it all
we still could
We reached peak performance
we almost reached Star Trek replicators
The whole world enjoying life saving advancements
over a hundred years
Only for it to decline for the first time
instead of just sabotaged into a slowdown like before
Those billionaires want to stay relevant
Even though they’re beyond useless
They’re a detriment to our democratic progress
just to preserve their status as economic royalists
who decry the decline of Victorian social deference
Remember Kurt Vonnegut talking about his school
in the era of almost proficient public funding?
He was excited to have a jazz band
Until these types of things were deemed unimportant
for those who may need them most
Now we have the technology to exceed the speed and competence
of the 80s, 90s, and aughts
but the the profit motive just gets stronger and more depersonalized
We’ll teach them to fish by killing them all
Jan 23, 2024
Jan 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM UTC
Abysmal adulation, my spinal cord reverberates harmonious change
Obscure illusions, immersed inside inquisitive, provocative thoughts
Who can deny such devouring primal endeavors
Beneath each aching desire—strangled deep in the memory, I scorn
Pen in hand, I hear the call, when one door closes, altruism is key
Sep 25, 2021
Sep 25, 2021 at 2:44 AM UTC
when a deep love grips you, you don’t mind—
you savor it and say thank you.
it takes you by surprise and suffocates you, hand on throat— callous, stern, kind.
at first it scares you, then comfort envelopes. possibility emerges.
you cough, your lacquer-coated, oak-like lungs tapped dry and somehow full, heart still deep, and thoroughly unsure which way leads home.
you’re still whole and never won’t be, but something tells you there’s another piece out there.
the hand on the throat; the shrapnel in your lungs; the serenity behind a contented chuckle at some half-assed joke.
all the same, it’s real. and you know it. and it won’t leave you, even if things don’t end the way you want.
it’s been said that it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. I want to say it’s true.
cough as much as you need, ask for a drink, and speak deeply and honestly without losing yourself.
Sep 26, 2021
Sep 26, 2021 at 12:32 AM UTC
All my heart has to give
while it's beating like a clock,
to share its warmth for when you cry,
to make you bloom inside
your deep blue mind
All the strength I can muster
before I can't walk myself,
to bring you back from beside the cliff,
to route your daydreams
back home
All the time
I don't have to spare,
to lullaby the demons away
even if it means
I'll be burned by flame,
I'm not here to amend for my past neglect,
but I'm asking for a smile,
I am yet to respect
Apr 27, 2021
Apr 27, 2021 at 4:43 PM UTC
she gives her hands
but shes still left with her head
she gives that too
but shes still left with her heart
she gives her heart
but it still hurts like hell
so she gives herself
and now there's nothing left
to give.
Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 2:55 AM UTC
My heart hurts and everything seems wrong.
Tears stream down my face right as time is frozen.
And you're the cause, I hate you for that.
The years I've spent hating you for letting our love die is now something I deeply regret.
I finally get that you sacrificed yourself just so I could be happy.
You let your heart break and shatter completely just so mine could heal.
But you also made me suffer something worse than death.
And that makes me hate you.
You let me cry and cry and cry for so long just so I wouldn't suffer, but that was my suffering.
I hate you for that too.
You didn't stop me when I yelled names and profanities at your face repeatedly as I in the hallway for 'cheating' on me, and people thought I was crazy.
I hated you a lot for that.
But mostly I hate you because no matter how much I try to forget you or our love, I can't.
You did everything just so I'd forget or hate you, but now you realize that all that suffering was for nothing.
I love you,
And I always will.
But we both don't deserve this.
Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 5:57 AM UTC
I've passed the homeless on the street,
Wondering if today they'll eat,
And I cry, Why me?
I know plenty who attend AA,
And many who didn't make today,
And I cry, Why me?
I know there's millions unemployed,
As dwindling aid keeps them buoyed,
And I cry, Why me?
They're lonely and they're isolated,
The throngs, apart and dissipated,
And I cry, Why me?
Many friends and family die,
Yet still I cry, Why me?
Why me, indeed, a plaintiff wail.
Why me? Why me?
Until I fail.
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020 at 9:51 AM UTC
The Receptionist's counter is too close to the forever waiting room.
The Nexts are trying their patient penances;
Some seem to read;
Others appear to listen to the television;
There's no dialogue,
Except for the Dr.'s assistant,
And, the Receptionist.
Any conversation would be idle, and not heard anyway.
They sit on pins, listening for their names.
Super Tuesday held no kryptonite for Super Joe, remarked the talking head.
The Dr. will see you in three years.
I fist pump and spin to leave,
Seeing a blur of corralled, bowed, preoccupied heads.
A frail face lifted up, and smiled for me.
Happy for me.
Truly the best medicine.
Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 3:05 PM UTC
if i cannot sing
and cannot touch
i will prove that
i can heal myself
through the act
of healing others
Feb 19, 2020
Feb 19, 2020 at 5:07 PM UTC
Money ebbs and flows indifferent as the rain.
Wouldn’t it be better if we could live on altruistic actions and deeds done for others?
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 17, 2020 at 2:30 PM UTC
Read the instructions carefully:
Begin at one, go on to two,
Although, if logic’s not your thing,
Just tear the rule book into shreds
And visualise perfection now
Using the ideas of ideas
Beyond mortality and death,
Build foundations of cotton wool
Clouds as white as nothing known here,
Blend with new brightness,
Wipe clear shades of uncertainty
Away into whatever time
Becomes in this new place and then
Find things to occupy your time:
Balance pale porcelain cherubs
High and thread cold stars in millions
Above them. Harp with purest notes
If you are musical, if not,
Give oxygen to souls in need,
And shelter on this white mountain
Those bewildered victims starting
Without choice to spend infinity
Themselves believing nothing more
Than self and suffering.
Dec 7, 2019
Dec 7, 2019 at 12:13 PM UTC
Is it good to be strong?
Is it bad to be weak?
Is it wrong to fit in?
Or right to be unique?
Are you selfish if you want help?
Are you selfless if you give it?
Is there altruism in amicable lies?
Or selfishness in a fake smile?
Do you even know who I am?
Do I?
You always have both hands out ready to help anyone who needs it
I want to be like you, and I’m starting to see opportunities, but where you act on them, I do not. I guess that means I’m
Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM UTC
Sometimes I think
This must be too good to be
True, but I hope that’s just anxiety speaking
Because you’re someone I want to keep
Jan 13, 2019
Jan 13, 2019 at 2:13 AM UTC
As a young man in love,
I was selfish.
I walked with you,
I shared food,
I slept with you,
It was my insatiable thirst;
Desire, and
I needed to gulp it,
At any cost,
For survival.
Perhaps you felt likewise.
I didn't know.
Now, being older,
That
Which I do
Out of love,
I do for you.
Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 11:52 AM UTC
Cushier near
The pillion
In tatterdemalion
Uncomfortable
By the hitchhiking
hire
Laying fire to
The streets of admirers
Carrying a man in need
Expecting to be in a radio station
Before next week
It's gonna make really weak contention
Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 4:07 PM UTC
This place is amazing
nothing like anything
Ha! This place is gorgeous!
This place is a palace of some sorts
A mothership,
This place is full of delight and adventure and rainbows
I wouldn't give it up for the world this
Honor, this Creed
clambering continually in calamitous Abyss
Who is it there behind the rainbow curtain,
calling upon my name?
Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 1:11 PM UTC
my love for you was altruism and you was ready to do anything just to heal yourself.
Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018 at 12:57 PM UTC
#
*I can not control the actions of others
I can only control me
A lifelong task to do my part
Choosing the* energy
*Emanate from in my core
The vibe that others get
A feeling that is positive*
Tuned frequency that’s set
Harmonic tone in the chorus
The Universe’s choir
Be kind for just the sake of it
With nothing more desired
No expectations preconceived
Mindset on others placed
The smallest task; the largest deed
Can quickly be erased
If when complete there’s no return
Signaled acknowledgment
So you rebuke with scoff or scowl
Good deed out window went
*If something’s the right thing to do
Then do it just because
You know it’s right and should be done*
A life fulfilled you’ve won
#
Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 6:30 PM UTC