Sunday, September 26, 2010

New Poems! (Pt II)

The Price of Honesty

There are days when everything

you've done wrong stands up to you in blazing

neon, impossible to ignore

and you're never in the right.

There are days when a cloud

looks like a slap in the face

and the wind is the only thing

keeping you upright. There are

the days when everything which surrounds

you is so beautiful that the only

thing you can think is

"I'll never be able to write that."

There are more of those days

than there are of the ones where

you're centered and quiet and happy,

and the days when you're truly enjoying life

are always bracketed by the ones where

you want nothing more than to torch

every bridge and move West,

to leave all of the bullshit behind.

It's impossible to pretend everything

is great with yourself when you

know it isn't true.

It's the price of honesty.

If you are awakened to an idea, share it.

If you want to learn about someone, ask them.

If you want to love someone, love them.

If you want to accept someone’s love, accept it –

but never do it falsely. Someone else

will appreciate what you do not.

If everything hurts, give it time.

If nothing hurts, and you’re happy

in your tiny space, break your bubble.

If you know what’s going on,

and you’re happy, enjoy it –

time will not give you many moments.

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