March 23, 2005

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  Keep It Real

  
  how do we allow ourselves
  
  to distort our own emotional self-portraits
  
  by trying to view ourselves
  
  through someone else's eyes?
  
  
  
  how do we get so caught up in
  
  expectations and perceptions
  
  and forfeit the truth for
  
  masked and hidden verity?
  
  
  
  our collective sadness is a child
  
  born of our life's experiences
  
  and only succeeded by
  
  older and darker versions of itself...
  
  
  
  our hurt and anger shows
  
  through our indiscretions and sins
  
  against ourselves and each other...
  
  
  
  i often wonder if god is ashamed of
  
  our shamefulness and selfishness...
  
  
  
  i wonder if the love in our hearts is
  
  pure and true enough to overshadow
  
  the dark and evil deeds we do on a regular basis...
  
  
  
  the misfortune of my curiosity
  
  is that unanswered questions
  
  cause more confusion
  
  and we cop out
  
  we sell out
  
  we continue to falsify emotional documents
  
  we proceed to use others' eyes
  
  to view ourselves and we fail to see inside...
  
  
  
  we fall short of what should be beautiful
  
  because we focus on superficial and
  
  depthless, cursory images
  
  that burn themselves in our memories
  
  attach themselves to the depths of our minds
  
  and hold our independence hostage
  
  
  
  ayo_cutie
  

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