My Way (A poem for the majority)

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Open Poetry #40

My Way (A poem for the majority)

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2007-05-23 12:35 PM

Have I become comfortable
with my hopelessness? Yes!

No more hopes and no more dreams
to trouble my waking moments;
no more crazy thoughts
crisscrossing my numbed brain
in the middle of the night:
no right and no wrong,
just existence, day after day,
predictability in every way;
that’s how I want it.

I don’t care about the rich
I don’t care about the poor,
I don’t care who says this or that
or what changes they make to the law:
I’m OK, you’re OK,
what more would anyone want?

This isn’t me, I try to cry out -
but the collective lethargy
chokes my uncertain voice
and I reach for the surfer tool
and I grab a pop from the fridge:
it seems my feet rise to the coffee table
quite on their own... I let them,
they know what comfort is.
Who was I kidding before?
That I was some kind of hero?
No – only in my own mind.

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-05-23 12:51 PM

sad and bored. a good poem

enjoyed

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2007-05-23 01:03 PM

Understanding this completely! There are days and nights when to do anything but vegetate mindlessly seems pointless.
But we both know what happens the next day. You get off your duff and do 'it' again, shrugging your Atlas shoulders in hopes of a positive outcome.

but you are NOT alone my friend.....

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2007-05-23 01:56 PM

a fine slice of "everyperson-life dejavu"
realism!

[at least for all us 'little people' of
the world...I can't speak, of course,
for the 'rich and infamous']

applause!!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2007-05-23 07:34 PM

I relate indeed

sometimes I feel that if I really wanted to walk on water, I'd have the guts to get out of the boat

walking on water doesn't appeal to me

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