Reality

My sights see what must be seen, not what should be.
My heart feels what truly exists, not what should be felt.
A life like no other in such a time that exists not common to 
many, a level reached by the obsessed and mostly never 
reached and I ask myself why, looking at reality before me and 
anger emits allowing such, ignorance is it. I pitty the world I'm 
in, but somehow the smile of my loved ones, from those 
strangers who know how to show a real smile, reality surprises 
me with the little good we so easily forget, what we should truly 
remember. My heart feels warmth once more, when it rarely did. 
How the beauty of life controls our destiny so well, to become 
what we should be, not what we want,
We accept what we should be, but never what we want.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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