The Lack
caring
is said to be what pushes us forward,
it makes one step out amongst the crowd
of the indifferent, to raise a finger
or to lift one who has fallen
with hands of compassion
or to yell with the voice of
a thousand roaring lions
at an obvious injustice &
yet, the lack of one act of meaning
in the life of any given human
is more the rule than the
exception---
the lack
the hole inside, greatens (it does not shrink
as time goes by---for with age comes
exposure to more injustice & more horrible
acts) &
when one starts to seek out
a path, one is labeled a seeker,
diminishing the search itself
due to the reduction placed on
an individual’s ambition
when such possibility gets
lumped into organized
monstrosities
that have failed in the past &
that continue to do so---
for the only way to fill the lack
the only way to develop an individual
sense that any genuine act can even be
completed, is to do so
by oneself.
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2012
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