A poem to truth

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Truth

Truth is like a cascading rainbow
Multicoloured and unreal
Without it lost and dazed,
We cannot help but feel.
Yet unhindered we progress,
Towards that unattainable ideal
The tyrant bathes in the blood of many.

We stand on the shoulders of our fathers,
Who fathers they themselves did stand
And who will question their directions?
Should we give a damn?

Men are not malleable- Truth has many faces.
One mans rebel is another mans liberator.
Both with “sound” cases.

The only truth there is,
The one we ourselves behold.
Sooner or later we will realise
We make our own resolve.

Question those things that you hold near,
The feeling of you that is so dear
So you might, with a fight
See opinions are not true,
And that person over there is just like you.

With this mind you may be free,
And know your place in this world,
Reason the lock, Tolerance the key,
So twist and hear the click
Flee from hate and live to be.

How, you ask, do I know what’s right?
And what bad man that I must fight?
Cleanse the filter that surrounds you
And see for yourself what this world contains.
Precise ground you feet will never fall,
But the enlightened stance you will attain,
And from here walk your path.
So when Armageddon comes, you can say you tried.

Your best friend could be your worst enemy,
Your worst enemy could be your best friend.

This took me ages to write, i think it pretty damn good though. Its got some opinions in their, perhaps some people would like to comment and discuss? please do…!

Peace

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"With this mind you may be free,
And know your place in this world,
Reason the lock, Tolerance the key,
So twist and hear the click
Flee from hate and live to be. "

Thank you for this poem! I especially liked the above stanza.
I needed this.

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Kristalyn, I missed you… your poetry I mean. :smiley: Welcome back!

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Enlighten,

nice to see that you are still around.

I don’t doubt that it took a long time for you to write this poem…it is beautiful. You are clearly examining a lot of things in order to see if you can trust in anything people around you trust in. You are really wanting that something out there deserves your trust…

See that you are not gonna give up life even if it frustrates you sometimes…

and the blindness of some prejudices of ours can be defeated by:

when we lock ourselves and become sure that our standards of “good” and “bad” applies to everyone (when in fact everyone is a unique being). You get surprised sometimes, the ones who are supposed to help you betray you and the ones who are supposed to harm you help you…what generally happens, showing how little we know other people and ourselves…

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Thanks Fabiano, Nice to be around :slight_smile:

I am really pleased that you liked my poem, that you say it is beautiful makes me even happier! I never really knew I could write poems….

Ok, it seems I am transparent. I am looking for people out there to deserve my trust and have had a negative experience with friends of mine from assuming my values of good and bad should apply to them. The main ethical belief I hold is that one should treat others as you yourself would like to be treated in their situation, its nice and simple. This doesn’t work out because most people are so selfish. Then I remembered a story I once heard, cant remember where to be honest, it went something along the lines of: A man helped a snake cross a river out of pity, for the snake really had to get over to the other side. The man says to the snake, “now, please don’t bite me”. When the snake is on the other side, it bites him. The man asks “why did u bite me snake” to which the snake replies “You knew i was a snake in the first place”. This has changed my outlook on things, it implies you are to blame if you expect certain values from people and they screw you over. Now I continue to according to my main ethical belief which I believe is the most simple and logical way to act, but I am unsure how to deal with certain people, if I should be hostile for what they stand for, or if I should continue to be how I am. I guess what it comes down to is : Can we blame people for who they are? or merely their actions, I am in muddy territory.

Another thing which pisses me off, is that nice guys finish last, and in today’s social temperature being good seems to require an empty sacrifice, people need a reason, so egoistic… but maybe it is arrogant of me, I am no angel, I am no better than anyone else, but no worse. I just expect certain standards.

I hope my little introspective journey will not dissuade any more comments on my poem!

Peace

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