My Own Enemy
Wander into darkness where steps are not yet made Envision Death lurking then feel all courage fade Question each step until decay affects all reason Witness with despair a thought committing treason
By:PocketPoet

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My Own Enemy
Wander into darkness where steps are not yet made Envision Death lurking then feel all courage fade Question each step until decay affects all reason Witness with despair a thought committing treason
By:PocketPoet
In vain
It is strange to think that I will live another year
It is even stranger when it so easy to die in this world
I never thought I would make it to adulthood
And my pessimism
I find
Constricts me
My gaze ahead is wayward
And yet
snow flakes are fluttering down
A whirl of possibilities
they touch my skin
water streaming between my fingers
Liquid time in my palms
All I can do is stare as it drips
Harrowing me
That is my future
———-
My innocence was lost with my childish naiviety from a simpler time
A time where there was only white against black,
snow against the night
A time when I thought I had control over my life
But I grew up and discovered that there was gray,
I lost hope in not just the world but myself as well
And with that the sky became clouded,
Ash falling I didn’t know what to do about it,
The world once bright was only an illusion
My vision strayed,
And everything felt ‘in vain’
Its because, at the end of the day I can’t help but think it’s all for naught.
The only fate that we share with everyone else is to die.
We are all born with the terminal illness of life only to be cured with death
It is the one fatal flaw wired through all of us through genetics.
We all will die,
We will all be forgotten,
The only thing my awareness provided me was a foot in the grave.
My ‘future’ is in vain.
But it is important to remind yourself to live
Shun your awareness and stay in your ignorance
Live in the moment and laugh and smile,
Life is short but you will live for a while,
You may be forgotten but remember that it makes this life even more special
Like a secret webbed through the cosmos, only known to you
You don’t need a legacy in a world of ash
Instead grasp onto the snowflakes before they melt away
I want you to breathe even if there is no point in the end
I want you to experience because this is your one chance
It is yours, so make your friends.
Have no regrets
People have wasted away their lives trying to create a legacy
Wanting to be remembered but not everyone needs that
They are the ones afraid of a ‘permanent’ death and I want you to see
Every story ends and it’s sad.
But those who actually lived are content and at peace.
They are the ones who smile as the snowflakes finally melt.
- R.S.M.
The need to avoid contempt and hatred
The prince should, as I have already suggested, determine to avoid anything which will make him hated and despised. So long as he does so, he will have done what he should and he will run no risk whatsoever if he is reproached for the other vices I mentioned. He will be hated above all if, as I said, he is rapacious and aggressive with regard to the property and the women of his subjects. He must refrain from these. As long as he does not rob the great majority of their property or their honour, they remain content. He then has to contend only with the ambition of a few, and that can be dealt with easily and in a variety of ways. He will be despised if he has a reputation for being fickle, frivolous, effeminate, cowardly, irresolute; a prince should avoid this like the plague and strive to demonstrate in his actions grandeur, courage, sobriety, strength. When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgment is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
- ‘The Prince’ by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Request for Perfection:Denied
Fundamentally defective without sight for change Lost into confusion every step starts to derange Gradually unhinged by requests towards evolution Sightless within dark see defiance as conclusion
by:PocketPoet
irresolute
there is no quite things to write
there is no quite things to write means,
there is no feels to have.
i am irresolute.
it’s 02.26 am in the morning, the sky is fractious again
yelling, shouting, letting it all out.
wants everyone to find out.
but is it true? the way how the sky acts?
do i want to be like the sky?
i am irresolute.
The faster they hurry, the slower they go
The faster they hurry, the slower they go
“Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute. The faster they hurry, the slower they go.” ~ Send Ts’an
Food for thoughts…
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