Self Reflection
Self-reflection is an art
A two edged sword that no one teaches
No religion philosophized
my own personal goal
to better myself
and understand everything
by seeing one another
through the slide of me
through another’s eyes
and that person
through yet another’s eyes
Four good qualities you truly possess is where I start
The good things about me
Actually that’s a lie
That’s what I recommend
I usually get a little bit sad sit here and realize
That I think I’m deep and no one understands
I know through self-reflection of understanding history
and putting myself in other peoples shoes
Like a mental actor of how I would feel emotionally and mentally
and then writing it down
is like self reflection but not quite
close but no cigar I have learned we are truly all actors and life is indeed a stage
And when we learn how to manipulate the greatest acts of man for the history
books
The next generations will be taught in school how to prevent wars and live in
piece by us selling one perfect life or lie
And I wonder if I’m a 27-year-old psychological lie of a ghetto wizard
I’ve described
Through self reflection I know they're are things I need to change
Some things I never will
Some things I am a part of
And at least the parts and pieces of my life I live like poetry that if they were
captured like dreams in a butterfly net
They would teach something to the future like Jesus or anybody would if they
understood
Just how to self reflect emotionally mentally put yourself in another’s shoes and
learn the lesson through writing a poem
or thinking it out
If each generation and the history books were all acts of men
and my generation has to top the last lie with a wisdom of the perfect metaphor
to unlock the following generations thinking process
Is that the game of the planet?
Are those the reasons to the wars we fight today?
to teach tomorrow
When they write their essays that will become tomorrow’s politicians
An insane asylum can teach politics and all we really want is to pay them to be
rich and make global friends so we can have utopia
But in the history book of the essays they no longer write where life lessons were
learned and taught through misfortune of man
there are gems to be uncovered of how to stop wars how to peace keep
How to mediate
How to live
How to heal
and every generation we discover it on our own as the teachers subtly shape our
minds
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