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Oh, the internet!
I made a mistake today
Witnessed ugliness
Yeah, spent too much time this evening reading terrible news stories. Humanity’s ability for brutality stuns me beyond all sensibility.
I’ve found that I need to find the good when faced with this. Go create, seek out beauty and kindness.
So, here I am.
I don’t understand
The drive for savage cruelty
Life’s brutal enough
Internet trolls puzzle me greatly. What do they seem to accomplish? What is their goal? It just seems so much easier to build others up than tear them down.
Drifting through blogs
Reading words
Burning from hearts
Women defined solely
By shape, size, skin….
Always found wanting
“Ugliness” a weapon
Sharper than steel
Wounds so deep
Blood flows into the soul
Drowning from within
The world existing
Entrenched brutality deep
Sunlight clears the fog
See culture’s mirror
Brutality’s rough edges
Reality’s pain
Joyously brutal
Sinister satisfaction
Crushing all delight
Upon the edge I sit,
Staring across
A gulf of white,
Brutal, bitter, cold
Sings it’s song
Of death and delight.
And I know, within
My being’s depths
That the path across
Is life, vigorous and true,
Fully, finally alive.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 