Friday 8 July 2011

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding

A blackness, a darkness, a creeping despair,
A looming future: a thick and heavy air.
A twisting knot from an unknown place,
A crippling fear; a torturous face.

  One word, that's all
  One word, never forgot.
  One day, complete turn,
  Like plastic, melts and burns,
    Choking fumes, choking life,
     a plastic friendship,
      a rotten end.

Each burning, boiling liquid drip
scorches through your soul.

Her face has never looked so empty
her eyes have never looked so black
yet no one else can see this darkness:
you're alone suffering from a heart attack.

She's rotten and vile, like a poisonous wound:
never healing, never forgetting:
you're face is scarred, you're terrified,
never let her win: she'll eat you alive.
          Never forget
          Never forgive
          Never turn your back:
           she won't let you live.

Yet through the darkness a hand might reach;
this palm has a lesson to teach.
Forget all torment, you must pass through,
you must take control,
you must conquer too.
She is an enemy only to you.
She cannot win: she'll always pursue.

Believe in yourself, believe in your soul,
the pain you have suffered
makes your judgement more bold.

                              You can make it.
                               Forget the pain.
                                Forget the torture: deny her face.

And when you're head is clear,
and you learn to ask,
I will always answer
"this too shall pass".

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Words

Words. Simple short meaningless words. We say billions and billions of words in our lifetimes, but are any of them even worth saying? The less you say, the more poignant those words are. What if I never utter another word? My dying word could be extremely poignant, or it could be some meaningless shit like 'Rosebud'. Writing; putting these words together in differing patterns and phrases and languages and colloquialisms, and what does it all come to? Words get lost in action. Words dying their last breath on stage. Words are hurried in texts, they’re spluttered over coffee, they’re giggled away by teenage girls and they fill the awkward space between meeting someone and leaving them again. Silence. Silence feels nice, it feels clean and simple and pure. It feels natural. Did humans just invent words to seem more clever, when in fact it proves our inadequacy? These words that form questions that plague our minds, drive people insane, create imaginary circumstances and future possibilities for the people of now and here to worry and panic about. Words seem to just spawn hate and evil. But we love them, because without words, we’re simply apes, picking the flees off each other’s backs, fighting in the wild and mating for pride. We’re not apes: we’re apes with words.