Anonymous

Anonymous  8/29/2014

Some people

Want to be desired

But others have learned

What it is

And what it’s not.  

Cool isn’t cool

If it robs you of freedom

And what is life worth

If you have to lie.

If you remember the feeling

Of cruel rejection

Then you know
You can survive anything

And anywhere.  

We live until we die

So why do we run

When all we had to do

Was go through. 

The world is tiresome

And who hasn’t heard this all before

That many have given up

When they should have stayed.

No one may give a warning

And good advice is hard to find

But no one ever said

That it would be easy

This, them, and that.

If we never stretch

Then we contract

And he who is safe

Will never grow at all. 

It me the longest time

To learn that I didn’t matter

And that my dreams were wasted

Useless and dumb. 

And that it was useless

To let that hurt me

Because none of it

Was about me anyway. 

The things I wanted

I didn’t understand

And the pain that I felt

Was that of a child

Learning to be a man. 

No one will ever tell you

What it means

To really become

Instead the

It me the longest time

To learn that I didn’t matter

And that my dreams were wasted

Useless and dumb. 

And that it was useless

To let that hurt me

Because none of it

Was about me anyway. 

The things I wanted

I didn’t understand

And the pain that I felt

Was that of a child

Learning to be a man. 

No one will ever tell you

What it means

To really become

Instead they will tell you

To achieve and acquire

As if power is something

You can ever earn or keep.

We waste our lives

Trying to be God

Instead of letting God

Show us why. 

I never knew enough to ask

And I never felt worthy

Even though I tried

And even though I raged.

I was angry at the world

But it was of no use

Because all the emotion in the world

Cannot change what is wrong.  

I don’t display pictures

And I don’t advertise my name

Because now that I know

I can finally understand. 

Nothing is lost

And everything is here

Yes even the dead

And even the lost. 

All of it

Will be retrieved

And all of them

Will live again. 

It doesn’t matter

If anyone knows

And if only one ever understands

Then it will have to be enough. 

Read on

And think

Remembering that today

Everything is new

And everything is alive.