Better Yet

Better Yet  8/19/2013

If you want someone to cry

Then go and look somewhere else

And if you want someone

To feel ashamed

Then you had better think again

And run away. 

Time and water trickles down

Never to return

But the hatred of the foolish

Will eventually boil upwards

And burn them alive. 

If you hate yourself

Then go away and vomit

But even a fool should know

It is our actions that matter.

A wise man can read the message

And a smart man will be prepared

Because freedom seldom comes

Without suffering and bloodshed.

The journey upwards is never easy

But great things are elusive and risky

Not for the dull 

Or the emotionally deficient. 

No one can do it for me

And they will not

Do it for you

Because if we do not struggle

Then we will never grow. 

My heart burns

For what is true

Indomitable and undefeated

Come what may

And come what will. 

That is why

I have learned

That I had to lose it all

In order to have it back. 

I am smiling now

Because now I know

As a take dead aim

And let loose a steady stream.

Telling the truth

Is beautiful

Because it heals the soul

And loosens the rope

Wrapped around our necks. 

Others can do what they want

But I don’t need to carry the weight

Because it’s better to be free

Than it is to be a slave.

If they come for words

Then they will come for thoughts

Just to bury the truth

Any which way they can. 

But a free people

Have no use for propaganda

And good men

Should seek the truth. 

We are more than human

And can accomplish impossible things

But only if we know

What we are

And who to ask. 

This flesh will rot

And this house will fall

But true love has conquered the world

And pours over us all

Clear, cold, and pure. 

We will never be finished

And there will always be more

To share and create

Long after this is done

And all this is dead.