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The cruelest joke, to me, the existence of man

Divine soul trapped in flesh for such a short span

Straining so long ‘gainst our binding chains

Vital essence lost, swirling down dark drains

Now only aware of that poor inner being

When confronted by pain of life’s poison sting

As Loki now bound to the core of the earth

Paying for past crimes, we’re sentenced to birth

These bodies aren’t built to house souls of the ether

Nourishing wants of the body, helps Fenrir break tether

Resist nature, we must, whatever the cost

For if that wolf is loosed, all hope is lost

Maybe this punishment is not what it seems

But a twisted perversion of old gods dreams

A game that has changed with the creators tastes

Original intentions now forgotten or debased

Code running untended, chaos unfurls

Entropic daydream now dances and twirls

Inscrutable now, those original rules

A game of survival, of nature most cruel

For taking what’s needed, by guile or by force

To survive, all things can be done, no remorse

Ancestral warriors scream out from my blood

Crying for violence, a rapturous flood

But now those that live by this ancient creed

Are caged for the animal side that they feed

For most, now those instincts lie buried beneath

A layer of comfort in gilded, clasped sheath

https://norse-mythology.org/tales/loki-bound/

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/fenrir/

#me #poetry #not finished #but I lost steam so i might as well post it #reflecting #introspection #i included links in case people wanted to know what yhe references were about

railroadreverie

found this on reddit you know what i have to do

railroadreverie

starkid256

metropolitanmutantofark

depsidase

fleshst4r

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we're not going to make it

we will make it

it'll take too long to rebuild ourselves

we will make it

but what if we don't wake up in the morning

we will make it

i don't see a future with me in it

we will make it

we'll give up long before then

we will make it

im scared

i love you. we will make it

Voting ended onApr 11

animnightmare

The votes on this post. Oh. A poem in poll form, interactive art, the fact we can see how the other people reading it felt. im. this is really good.

Unrelated to any current events, I came across my old copy of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ from 1849 and started re-reading it. Definitely takes some more effort to read older essays like this, but worth the time and effort. Here’s a few pieces I found interesting;

The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.

And

Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation _with_ a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents on injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts--a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniment…

-There is nothing new under the sun

Verifying…

#henry david thoreau #civil disobedience #recommended reading #there isn’t a good place to stop these quotes #old sentences were long

tall

corantus

locked the fuck in get my money up

skoomabong

bartfargo

drdougdouglass

There's Nothing Great about the Taste of Hate.

turing-tested

why didnt you call the cops or cps?

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.

dont you ever blame an abuse victim for not going to the authorities.

turing-tested

yes this okay to reblog!