16/08/2018
When I’m not looking in my own backyard
Sometimes I look at the world
And it breaks my heart to think
That misery is the river of the world
The horrible things that us menfolk do
Are a blight on the mark
We leave for eternity
And it pains me that
So precious a gift as being
So often means
The path of hardship, starvation, war
And every day even here
In the first world, a country at peace
Men cheat each other
Murder, rape and steal
Or battle beneath the poverty line
Drug addicts and life on the street
It’s human nature
That we are yet to achieve
A just and happy world
Which our brilliant minds
Are capable of providing
We’ve conquered space
We’ve conquered sea and air
And yet we haven’t learned to
To walk the earth
In harmony with our fellow man
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The title from this poem is a ‘Modest Mouse’ reference, there’s a Tom Waits reference and the last part is largely borrowed from a Martin Luther King Speech. Sometimes life can be so damn depressing. The way that despite having every material thing ready at hand people have horrible lives and treat each other so cruelly. Humanity is so troubled, we’re just barely different from the primitive animals we evolved from and it shows in our many flaws. I always keep in mind the famous quote “The way you live your life echoes through eternity” and I want my legacy on this earth to be as a soldier for the light when I need to be and in harmony with my surroundings when it’s time to act willfully
