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[ladymirth]

 I'm really on a roll today.

Do you know where you’re going? 
Do you know where you are?
Do you remember why you’re doing
The things that you are
And if you don’t, is it satisfying
To breathe one moment to the next
And call it good living
With no meaning beyond that?
Without a cause who are we?
But another inconsequential 
Without want of a cause, what are we?
Other than shadows insubstantial 
If all the treasures of the earth
Were bequeathed alone to you
To your spirit, what is it worth?
Without a dream to pursue

Trite, isn't it? The next one's better, but disturbing. 

A Misanthropic Rant
All you cursed human animals
Your gut a-roiling with gluttonous fire
You’ll consume yourself out of house and home
Trying to quench your thirst with more desire 
Do you know the hunger that drives you?
That subsides with pretty trinkets
No more satiating than the smell of wine
Is to the raving drunkard
You’ll eat the earth and lay havoc in the skies
Blot out the stars with the very smog
Of your efforts to reach them; yet never ask why
The knowledge of a gaseous bog 
Has greater import than a baby’s cry
Crawling abandoned over inedible stones
As overhead, birds of carrion fly
Waiting to strip his starving bones
Drop a penny in a beggar's bowl
An investment in your halo
It’ll not keep his body nor your soul
But you’re still a jolly good fellow

...
I'm too young to be that cynical. 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like the second one.

No, you are not too young to be that cynical. And i had forgotten how much i liked your poetry. :)

Suds.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Suds. It is said that true cynics just aren't grown up enough to know better. =)

[janabard.livejournal.com]

Wow, the last 4 lines of 'Misanthropic Rant' are especially powerful.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Those last four lines were supposed to be part of a separate poem, but then I thought that if I was going to be depressing and misanthropic, I might as well do it in one go. XD

Your icon is very intriguing. Who is that?

[janabard.livejournal.com]

The icon is from a screencap of a woman dancing in the (opening?) ceremonies of the (1992?) Olympic Games. (I'm foggy on the particulars this morning.) sfaith made it for me. :-)