“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Everyone must share the drink, from the poison well
To step back from the brink, falling into hell
When all around are mad, the mad are sane
Non-conformity is bad, let the status quo remain
Inspired by another Khalil Gibran parable.
Do not grow too fond of your ideas or too certain of their truth.
Robert Greene
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to everyone who helped me at the hospital yesterday. It was very smooth and easy.
He understands me
Says the right words to care
He says he loves me
But hides something not to share
His true intentions
Are on cards held close to chest
He uses my feelings
To ensure he comes out best
He compliments me
Yet somehow his words feel fake
He always points out
My every little mistake
Always a people pleaser
To get everyone on his side
The power rises against me
I have nowhere left to hide
I meet his needs
Through his mental manipulation
And he walks away happy
From every situation
His use of guilt
Always bends toward his will
Once I am discarded
He’ll be doing it still
He uses humour
Everyone laughs at his jokes
But it’s me on the receiving end
Of his vicious little pokes
He whispers lies
In believable words of deceit
His crown never slips
He already has me beat
And it is no irony
I recognise myself in him
That’s how I spotted
The dark empath within
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to not lie in this morning, get up and see a fierce red sun in the sky.
You got there first
Tweeted it out
Smugly watching
Everyone shout
Follower explosion
You, the reliable source
Never involved
In meaningful intercourse
Keyboard warrior
Promoted to king
Yet an empty bag
Is all that you bring
If people remembered all of the Significant Events they had forgotten in recent years, they would perhaps realise that they were actually not that ‘signicant’ at all.
Mark Manosn
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for the rain last night, saving me from watering today and cooling down the night for a good long deep sleep.
An ideal war is one where
A third party is found to do your bidding
But the world is wising up
As nations respond with ‘Just who are you kidding?’
The ‘why’ is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
David Simon
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to the man who sold me 4-stroke engine oil yesterday so that I could use our grass cutter again.
When evil enters the heart
The mind speaks not plainly
But would force charity out of others
When desire was a brotherly fight
The bowl was never divided
And their love remained intact
Another Khalil Gibran parable.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lu Xun
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to Nong Gratae who helped me learn a little more Thai and can also help Amy get clients in Australia.
9th Jun 2024 – Submitted to Ragtag Daily Prompt – stuff
When you have two choices, choose the more difficult one.
Stoic thought
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for everyone who helped me at the hospital. They made it very easy for me.
Meeting you, asleep, amongst flowers
I curse you for destroying my youth
You are my enemy, I could kill you
The misty veil cannot hide the truth
And I too, your daughter, sleeping
Wish that you could also be dead
Standing between my freer self and me
My life will not echo all you have said
The cock crows, dew evaporates
Eyes open to the love of daughter and mother
The human condition, the order of nature
There is nothing else to be placed above her
Based on another Khalil Gibran parable
Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.
Julia Galef
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to find that I can get a booster vaccine at the local hospital this morning. Need to go early and queue up.
Mother, I am a mere man
I will climb mountains higher than you can understand
To show what a human can do
Tut and scoff, weep and worry
Yet it is something I must do
I will attempt impossible things
Because in the death zone, I come alive
I will be strong
I will leave no brothers behind
You taught me everything
And this is to honour you
Written whilst watching 14 Peaks.
People get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.
Robert Greene
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for this chocolate muesli to break up my normal breakfast eating. What a lot of work must go into making muesli.
My brain switched off, distracted
Just a second; my car, crashed it
Left it in gear, forgot the handbrake
Rolled on forward and smashed the gate
No real harm done, not this time
Scared one day I’m gonna get mine
Older, feeble-minded, decrepit
No longer the warrior intrepid
For mortals, the ‘easy life of the gods’ would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for my guitars that I can pick up and play when I feel like it.
7th Nov 2024 – Shared with Ragtag Daily Prompt – dust
The most important skill of a species intelligent enough to understand both their insignificance and their mortality is the capability for distraction.
Tim Urban
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for the great variety of food I can find where I live. It’s still new and refreshing to me.
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