A New World

If I could burn it all and start anew I would

 

Almost none deserve this gift of life in this world they have been given

 

If I could take it all down and start again I would

 

But everyone thinks this right… that they could do it all so much better

 

Sometimes I think it would be better to just take myself out of this world…that things would just miraculously be fixed if we weren’t here

 

You think that it will allow you to escape the pain of this world

 

But this isn’t true

 

If we simply discard this life it will not quell the unrest in the world

 

We will not feel happiness or pain or anything because nothing is nothing and nothing but nothing

 

But who cares right because nothing has got to be better than the pain of this life…right?

 

Then we remember back to the good times when we felt all the the radiant joyful amazing memories of your life  and then you think to yourself…

 

I could do it all better

 

You think that if you could take it all down and start anew… things would be better

 

You believe that you could take out all the pain and all the suffering from the world and be left with just the radiant joyful amazing experiences… but what could you change

 

Nothing would truly change

 

The places and the names and the labels and everything else would change

 

Everything except the one thing you were trying to escape because the pain will never go away no matter how strenuously you try.

 

But no matter what world you are in… you will always need the pain because…

 

Without pain

 

Joy is nothing.

 

Explanation: I wrote this a very long time ago. I believe during my ELA 10 class with Ms Jusseaume. We where about three days int our poetry unit and I was being a classic gebronnie, not doing what I was supposed to. The rest of the class had been given an assignment to work on some other kind of poem. But I took the entire class and for some reason wrote out this extremely depressing poem. I don’t particularly know why though, as I remember being in a good mood. But either way this was the result of me being completely off task.