"Reality?" 5/2/00

[Fester]

Reality?


I must hold fast to what I know is the truth
to anchor my sanity, to keep my youth
make this body of mine remember its light
the only way to win this fight

We are more than just crude matter
beings of beauty, each one
but we just gorge and grow fatter
on ignorance, and truth we shun

and we choke ourselves with our fears
and we fight each other with hate
and our children drown in their tears
and we only notice too late
we seem only to care for ourselves
trampling others under our feet
as if they were just snails in shells
or litter lying in the street

But creatures of light is what we are
with power to do what we believe
for mind has more power than anything, by far
for what it can think, it can achieve

So nothing else really matters
except what we think and we feel
because thoughts and emotions we feel and share
are the only things that are real

But if I lose my grip on this dream
I lose my grip on my mind
and without any final scream
oblivion is what I will find.

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I think this is a reflection of my internal struggle between STS/STO