Best Option Poems
Much to the chagrin of those who
would prefer to lay witness to
one's failure's,
Imagine not for the slightest
moment that our will has become
so weak as to allow compliance.
Where once our vision may have
been clouded and our boundaries
seemed forever shattered,
know in the end that our naked
sense of vulnerability truly
is our saving grace.
For it is that woundedness
if you will that lends itself
to a higher awareness.
Do we not gain strength
from our painful life experiences?
Should we not strive harder to conquer
life's old injuries?
By following our instincts step by
step along the very road that has
been paved before us,
And yes expecting at times that
there will be treacherous curves
we must allow for,
Oh to throw caution to the wind
and laugh in the face of failure
invites us to celebrate our
mightiest strength of all...
COURAGE...
At once my thoughts be still
To hear your voice so calming
Your song a melody
All but late in passing
Through my eye you run
From last to first return
If only gone was time
I'd be your arms surrounding
For every day is turning
And every night so long
Forgotten is no option
You'll be my home, my song
Pretenders seem to care less
About the world and its mess
They hide behind the apparent smiles
And smash words like tiles
Funny how we seem to enjoy crying
Forgetting that we should be praying
And somehow we laugh at the pathetic
But somehow deep down inside we sympathetic
Life has become an option
And to laugh is not the notion.
Drying paint dries the cracked walls.
And smear life as it near falls
What are we doing humans? Shrinking !
How we never smile at the good
But smile at when we drinking
And feed drugs to please the mood
Hear my cries dear young dude
Life is an option
And to seem deaf is not the notion.
Real talk seems to be a sneaky conversation
When the tough comes we play with emotion
When will we realize that in fact we are fearing
Dying,crying not listening to the weary
Distance and time seems all to be left
Yet we creep at night to commit theft
And stealing lives that shed innocent blood
Will the rivers cry with a red flood
Hear my cries dear young criminal
Life is an option
And to seem ignorant is not the notion.
If I die alone I reckon
That’s how I should go
Sometimes I feel alone
Deep inside of my soul
Tell me does it matter
Anything I have to say
I think everyone of us
Have our own bad day
As this day passes by
I will say me a prayer
If it gets heard or not
Think I could really care
I have done the best I can
And that’s all that I can do
If that isn’t good enough
Then hell’s an option too
Written for Sami's contest
and in no way a reflection
on my current state of mind.
EDUCATION MY OPTION
That i can add one plus one thanks to education
its a hammer that makes me build a good reputation
its the backbone and the pillar of our great nation
i treasure it like oxygen, that, i have to mention.
Mama and papa please take me ton school
marriage is not for me in really need that knowledge
its the key to the door leading to a good life
it may be a muddy pool but in it i wonna dive.
you say its roots are bitter but for sure the fruits are sweet
like dice pineapples the sweetness just drip
then flows like a river carrying along a bright future
converting me from a simple to a perfect creature.
we all live ones but education never ends
just like technology it always trends
its not like fashion it always stands
thats why i crave to have it even if a shred.
Apart from safaricom, education is the better option
in my heart it owns the largest portion
give me a pen and a paper and i will start a motion
walking through my course in education, all the way to my promised nation
Suicide is always an option.
You're depressed, they tell me.
Be patient. You'll feel better tomorrow.
For more than thirty years I've been waiting,
And tomorrow never comes. Every morning it's today.
Sometimes I know I should have called a halt,
With a noose or pill or razor; perhaps a bullet-
An infinite choice of methods, leading to..
The never yet exercised final option.
So each dawn I add the weight of another day,
To the tonnage I already carry.
Sometimes I think, Perhaps a shrink?
But no, insanity is only a state of mind,
And suicide is always an option.
I’d like to believe so....
I’d like to believe I’m happy
I’d like to believe I have good friends
And I’d like to believe they're all drifting away.. future tense
Tired of swallowing peoples nonsense
Choking on their lies
Throwing up my anger
All I can do is smile sleep slay
Satisfied to my own surprise
Afraid of getting hurt
Different time same reason
Felt like I had nowhere to go
I ran to it
I embraced it
I missed it?
Yea, my mom teacher and friend was called treason
It’s so different when you’re alone
Going places in your head
smelling your way back to where you bled
It’s outlandish
It’s random
It’s startling
And its different every time
One day your game will begin
Then u can decide if u like it
It’s taking me forever to fill out life’s stupid blank
I can never tell what I really want
But like a character in a movie I believe someone is writing my role
Tears.....come back again some other day
I want to learn from them
can’t do that away from them
For if you wanna watch, you're gonna have to stay
I’d like to believe I took the right turn
3rd of November don’t hate me for you might be the worst day of my life
I’d like to believe I am strong enough
...but I’ll let it pass
Aloofness
He fell for it
They all did
And didn’t see that coming
Some say I’m just confused and I’m going to regret it
Some say loneliness is iffy Hayfa don’t fall for it
I drew smiles on others faces
I’m sorry I can’t care
I’d like to believe it’s because I love him..
Ima take a risk
And if end up happy I would smile
And if not, I will not break.
I couldn’t let anyone else in
I don’t think I even tried
Got attached to my escape
Words.....
Didn’t wanna get hurt
someone I cherish once told me it’s going to be worth it
And here I am
Hating on you for losing me
but I have myself to blame now
Scared of being by myself....
Yet scared of being with you
when one must make a decision,
you think over it carefully.
when this decision effects only you,
it can be easy.
but when it effects some one else,
it becomes difficult and confusing.
when you must make a decision for yourself and another,
your judgement can become...... blurred.
one choice is good for you,
and the other better for the other.
what if whats good for you will ruin the other,
and whats good for the other will ruin you.
should one do for themselves,
be happy while the other suffers.
or suffer while the other is happy.
the answer is simple.......
if you love them,
then you will sacrifice anything for them....
and if they love you,
then there is a third option,
an option in which no one suffers.
this is true because love is a separate choice all together.
no one should suffer.
and both should be happy.
so i think when there is love,
there is no decision,
there is only whats right.
I believe in God.
I believe, because to not believe, is not an option.
I would rather believe in God throughout my life,
then when I die, if there is nothing, I have lost nothing
and would never know.
If I lived my life never believing in God,
then when I died,
and God asks why I did not believe,
I have lost everything,
and will know what I lost for eternity.
To not believe is not an option, only a gamble,
a gamble whose odds produce an incalculable result;
the only guarantee, truth.
Imagine a child who has never been encouraged
Or built up by praise
Or recognition for a job well done; however small the job
That child will likely be sullen
Uninterested in doing well
Unconcerned about improving his or her own life; or lives of others
Why bother? They ask themselves
Now imagine a Church filled with those children; grown to adulthood
It’s a Church where nothing gets done
Where personal
Community and societal improvement is not the agenda
Or included in mission statement at all
Why bother? We ask ourselves
But encouragement is not an option
Supporting each other is not a suggestion
It is what is required for a vibrant life-giving community
this drop-down box just does not fit
this pigeon-cooped web, on which I sit
my brother-in-law's first name don't matter
my mother's maiden name don't neither
see i never married, it'd make me fatter 'n'
Dad got Ma pregnant, then decided to leave 'er
i can't say i even remember a favorite
car or dog or a grade-school teacher
these choices would make me a hypocrite,
i don't fit your standard operating procedure
my life don't fit in these digital boxes
in observation, i suspect i'm not alone
programming pretenses are overly obnoxious
thinking outside them, that might be known
© Goode Guy 2013-07-09
actually a bit of an inverse verse of sonnet
Winter storms and I
Are sometimes one in the same.
Dark and gloomy, no blue sky
We feel no shame.
When the storm is done
Beauty is left behind.
No need to get a gun
Life is now aligned.
-Duane LaChance Sr. 2011
Your Option, Please.
Socrates Contemplated,
Shakespeare Performed,
Shelley Composed,
Newton Realized,
Hippocrates Diagnosed,
King Solomon Ruled,
Alexander Conquered,
Tansen Sang,
Rishi Vyasa Narrated,
Lord Krishna Sermonized,
Lord Buddha Inspired,
Emperor Ashoka Sacrificed,
Jesus Christ Cured,
Prophet Mohammed Refined,
M. K. Gandhi Abstained,
M L King Orated,
Lady Diana Loved,
Hitler Hated,
Malala Consoled,
So do the Timeline leads
To unending strings of
Yesterdays and Tomorrows!
7.055 Billion would Rage,
As History, Philosophy,
Literature and Lineage
Won't be an apt Potion for
Hungry Bellies and
Craving Minds of Today,
Device Your Option, Please.
There are people who express their frustrations in extreme and fatal ways which take them out of the equation of "The Test of Time". These "Tests" are given to every last one of us at birth. There are millions of versions of these "Tests" due to the variables in their environments which they were brought up in. There are some inevitable variables though that wind up fatal regardless. I feel in these fatal situations, these people would have a blessing from the creator due to these unstoppable events. no matter Rich, Stable, or Poor, these "Tests" are here for everyone to go through. Fact: The elders of this world have "Resolved" many "Tests" or their lives would have been shortened before they would've reached 60,70,80,90, or even a whole century of lifespan on this planet! Imagine the many "Resolutions" they have to share with us through their "Tests" they had to take. Some of their "Tests" are very similar to ours of these current times, even though the trends are very different. No matter what, everybody gets slapped from time to time by life, you must suggest to yourself a positive"Resolve" and push forward. I have went through many "Tests" in the 36 years of my life and had to examine my options for a positive "Resolve" in these "Tests" and I expect many more in the future. So if you meet someone who says they rarely are "Tested" by life or they "Resolve" their obstacles swiftly, they're lying, because like I said they happen to everybody, some are sudden and there are some "Tests" that your only "Resolve" is to walk away from in a since and let it take it's course!
hope of all HIV, Cancer patients – option value of species not exploited.
written on 16-11-2013. for the contest "Hope" by Yasmin Khan.
///////The only value for which the "species of no use" are
appreciated in this world is the "option value". This means that there is an option that one day a component isolated from these species will help to formulate a medicine to cure cancer or HIV. Since it won’t be fair to use the
words "species of no use" I have used "species not exploited".///////