Haikus are also cool
Because every syllable
is vital. Needed
Some longer poems
Throw words around casually
Artistic debris
A simple haiku?
Any idiot can write
Without too much faff
A good haiku though?
There's crafting behind each line
Good words DOA
There's complexity
Just not in the final verse
And that's a hard trick
It's odd, having a broken bone.
I am not out of breath
In fact, I have a lot of energy
Behaving as I behave
I feel perfectly healthy.
It is one flaw. One flaw alone.
A single broken bit of functionality
I could jump if asked.
And I would jump high
Bend my working legs
Then zoom to the sky
I can't rotate my left arm even a degree
The muscle memory keeps making me pained
I can write and draw
I can give a great high five
I can still throw a frisbee
I feel so alive!
I feel so limited. So very restrained.
Like an alphabet missing a letter
I can't wait to go outside
And live life in all it's glory
To embrace with a big hug
The chances that are before me
So I will improve. I must. get. better.
This morning, I watched a video on the soul
Where science fiction had proposed the transplant
Art had made us question our moral goal
Are we the same person from adult to infant?
And then I put it down. Finished breakfast. And cycled to work.
It felt like I should let the idea dwell in my mind
Say no, I'm sorry, I'm busy today
I have philosophical avenues I'm trying to find
I can't go about on my routine way
Alas, alas, in the Monday-to-Friday nine-to-five
You must clock in your hours
No time for things that make you feel more alive
You are subject to higher powers
It is then, the miracle of our brain capacity
To switch task with only some trouble at a logic gate
Our subconscious will still process while we do our duty
Until we can return to things at a later date.
And, while capitalism is still a foe to fight and
while the minds' flexibility is truly wonderous
I'm mainly grateful I have time at all to enlighten
Even if it sometimes feels squashed into breakfast
***
Video in question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkrrjKf5AE
There is a pressure rising
One that will not be contained
There is a pressure rising
Fuelled by fire and a little shame
"Why did we not act before?
Why aren't we acting now?
Could I be doing more?
How do we make a change? How?"
There is a pressure rising
The leaks begin to show
There is a pressure rising
Where will that pressure go?
"Don't show your outrage like this
Don't show your outrage like that?
Let us live our bliss
Until the day our Earth falls flat."
There is a pressure rising
It bubbles from within
There is a pressure rising
And it will not give in
We can EITHER heed the warning
And go in and face the cause
Now is not the time for mourning
Now is not the time for pause
OR we can prepare to face the day
When all the pressure goes
Takes us out along the way
Punishes for our comatose
There is a pressure rising
It is not going to stop
There is a pressure rising
Without help it will not drop
There is a pressure rising
The leaks already flow
There is a pressure rising
And we know where it will go.
I'm 30 now. Thir-ty.
Feels like a lot of years.
Feels like a lot of days.
Feels like a lot of time, in general.
Time in which most people have sorted things out.
But hey, I've been late on deadlines before,
what's one more deadline to add to the list?
I recently chatted to a lot of people who had just started work
and all of them were tired.
and I'm tired too.
but, well, not in that way, I think.
I've made progress in things.
Just not always the things I was supposed to make progress in.
Carving your own path is great.
Carving your own path also sucks, some of the time.
So, what is it that 30 years means?
I've met a lot of people.
I even still keep in touch with some of them.
And though I've yet to commit to someone to spend forever with
I'm still glad for the time I've spent with those I know.
I've learned a lot of things
Sure, some people learn quicker than me
Or are better at using what they know
Or playing the career game
But, well, I feel that a lot of what I've learned is worth knowing.
(or, at least, trivia I could put in a quiz someday).
I've grown a lot physically
The first few years were the hardest, but I've grown beyond that
I am still active, still doing sports
I'm not quite at the level I would like
And my body may soon start to grow weaker
But I've got to do some really cool things, and play in some interesting places
I've made a lot of mistakes
Like, a lot
And I'm still making them
Although, they're different mistakes now
I have some mistakes I think I wont make again
I'm 30.
I'm still figuring things out.
I don't have many answers yet.
Although, I think I am starting to figure out what the right questions are supposed to be.
