please be patient with me
What it is to be a person like me
To be happy, yet discontent
To grasp what you love, and let it slip
To be surrounded by great friends, yet feel alone
To love home and hearth, but yearn to see distant shores
You read journals of intellectual repute
and ruminate on celestial being
but you're better known for sexual innuendo
it's your own fault
Your greatest asset is your greatest curse
A mouth and mind that charms and offends in equal measure
it giveth, and it also taketh away
limits
what is desire? love liberty fortune and fame
perhaps not in that order
right now you'd settle for hot chocolate and the new Wilco album
your mind is honest
you're stubborn, opinionated, prone to flights of fancy
your heart is confused
most of the time you don't know how you feel
but when you do feel it, you're so convinced by it you'll never change how you feel, no matter what else comes your way
self deprecating on your qualities
extravagant on your weaknesses
One day I woke up and decided I could change the world. I thought about what this meant, and how I could do it. Simple is better, I thought to myself. To make an impression, but brief, a ripple in the pond. I decided to change the world one person at a time. If I could walk away from a person having left a laugh on their lips, challenge a preconceived notion, or opened their minds to a new way of thinking, doing, than that would be my contribution. When someone uses a word they've never used before, let that word come from me. When someone goes home humming a catchy tune,let that tune come from me. I want to start a catchphrase, and three months later have that catchphrase used on me.
Let my change be grassroots change - so subtle, so viral that no one will ever know it was me, but to subconciously leave such an indelible mark that impression becomes routine, routine to habit, until they don't know how they ever lived before it. Let that be me, and I will be pleased with my work.
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