Saturday, March 12, 2011

Free Verse

My dad just got back from a 3rd world country and he says "people are just happy to be alive and walking around and loving life, really happy people, but extremely poor and living in terrible conditions. Then I come back to America, and see people bitching about their job, their life, ect."

So.. I just felt like writing something.. I've never really written a poem (more like a free verse) before but this is just some stuff that's been on my mind lately. Hope you enjoy.

We're all part of a man made world.
Man made economy,
Man made reality pulled over our eyes,
Man's routine life
What's that they tell me, oh yes..
'The Real World'
What is the real world?
A 9-5 repetive life they tell me,
Sitting in that metal box, inching your way to work
That, is the 'Real World'
If someone attempts to step out, to be different,
They are told and forced back into this so called reality.
However, what is reality?
Reality is the state of things as they actually exist,
rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be.
Why do we still blind ourselves from reality then?
Important things in life should not be money, greed, nor jobs.
Live the real reality, with your own standards,
not your mothers,
nor fathers,
not even grandparents,
don't live by society's standards of reality.
Live by Your Own.

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19 comments:

  1. ScottDMarch 12, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    nice read!

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  2. BassislvMarch 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    loving this one, post more!

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  3. ChristopheMarch 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM

    Excellent post. Wonderful thought, and you're absolutely right. We get so caught up in the fact that we think our life should be easy, we don't appreciate it. :)

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  4. Choms1337March 12, 2011 at 2:59 PM

    that's true :/

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  5. CharlesMarch 12, 2011 at 3:20 PM

    awesome!

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  6. ErikaMarch 12, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    I love it =]

    Written so beautifully...

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  7. LhosreiffMarch 12, 2011 at 9:36 PM

    Really nice.

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  8. Bob lehcrorMarch 12, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    Nice, gets me thinking

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  9. The Game Store GuyMarch 12, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    An absolutely gorgeous verse and sumates a great deal of life lessons I have begun to take to heart in my endeavors. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

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  10. SKINNYBOXMarch 13, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    changing the way I think about things man

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  11. TotoMarch 13, 2011 at 6:53 AM

    very nice! loved it!

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  12. Kyle ShankinMarch 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    Very nicely composed

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  13. StyronMarch 13, 2011 at 4:46 PM

    This is so true. Nothing to add here. Great poem, man :) loved it

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  14. wolvzMarch 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    wow, i really liked your writing! it's a good reflection about our world. keep writing stuff like this!! :)

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  15. Kicking RocksMarch 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    this was a really great post, what 3rd world country was it?

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  16. TastyMarch 13, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    Beautiful words man. A great look at how people view their world.

    I only wish that more people will break out of the box and see what is actually going on.

    Good work.

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  17. TrelinMarch 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM

    Very good point. Reality is what we make it.

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  18. Electric AddictMarch 13, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    this is excellent! I like your questioning of everything. Really awesome stuff.

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  19. Candlej-March 14, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    thats nice work, and your dad has a good point.. they have a hard life and problems, but they learn at a young age to forge on.


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