My Two Bad Thoughts For the Day
Bad Thought 1.
Freedom.
Now there's a scary thing.
All the fences removed, no walls to block the Sun.
The future stretches out and...
It's a wasteland.
Wind bites your cheek; light burns your eyes.
You start to think maybe those walls had not been walls at all, but protective arms that guarded, held you safe.
Freedom is not enough.
But what is ?
Love?
Money?
Power?
Not enough.
Love is transient, burns you even when it's good, a punishment for weakness.
Money buys you more nothings.
Power is an illusion; there's always someone more powerful than you.
In the end is just death and it's all over, where's the point in that?
Freedom is not enough.
Bad Thought 2.
Retribution...
We can take them down, the valueless powerful ones who hold us in a world of convenient headlines and cute meme philosophies
But we could nibble like mice at their foundations, eat away the status quo.
All we need is the sneaky courage to seek revenge for their greed, and replace it with our own.
Copyright © Catherine Toward | Year Posted 2020
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