Pop Poetry: Light
April 3, 2021
I don’t think there is a true sense of enlightenment
The farther I think I have progressed doesn’t matter when I can’t see the whole board
What if we are all playing the game of life in real time
And we think that there are two houses at the end you get to choose from
But nothing is set in stone and nothing aligns because their are infinite spaces between here and the end and that’s assuming that there is one, and on a deeper level one that we can understand or feel
If we have only a partial strain of a muscle and can hope to heal or if we have a corkscrew sprain where our bone has shattered
But we feel no pain so we keep running
We keep running until our joints wear down, til we can’t sit up, til we can no longer frown, because what we think is the end has come
What if our souls are in training for something much greater than a battle or war
But I also wonder if we are nothing but specks on flowers
Or reverberations within a box of technology in a lab made to test out possibilities or study probabilities
Maybe that box is one of many in a kindergarten level classroom which is only one of thousands
Where children study our movements and thoughts
Where children can be thousands of years old but still considered young
How much learning can we accomplish in the time that we have
The 4.6 billion years the earth has been alive if you transform or make 4.5 billion years equivalent to 40 years we have been here for 4 minutes and you’re gonna tell me we are the only “intelligent” thing on the planet and that in 1 minute we cut down 30% of the trees that we only have mere seconds to fix it
But in our position the only one amplifying this are the people whose voices are silenced the most
The psychology of your words the boundaries you create
The way society teaches people to hate
Are people who teach peace fools or are they enlightened and what does that actually mean
How can I be better and if I am constantly bettering myself does that mean that one day I will float above it all but that would hinder my point because I am still tied to being human and making mistakes
What if those planets weren’t limited to 2D and 3D is there a higher level of being maybe that would be easier to believe
Because while we may have been told we are the most intelligent life forms what is the measure of intelligence
How do we not know that everything is communicating in harmony around us
That everything talks to eachother but we are left out so we call them stupid and we are somehow “smarter”
Ah yes woe is me
I, the weaker, who cannot live longer than a tortoise
I, the defenseless, who does not have claws like a tiger or lion
I, the fool, but fool is too big of an honor for our race
I, the bully, with my fake standards have crowned myself king of the jungle
And in tow I have the person to which I look down upon
And in tow and in cycles repeating and repeating is the same cycle of people not respecting one another or minding their own business or space within the world
Woe is me
For I have tried to sound like I am enlightened but I feel like everyone else is silent and I am just a speck of dust on your window sill that you can never get rid of
But I have continued on to shout, and bang, and sing
Oh woe is me,
Who tried to speak,
Woe is the Fool