Fire & Hope

FIRE AND HOPE ARE CONNECTED just so you know.
The way the Greeks told it, Zeus put Prometheus and Epimetheus in charge of creating life on earth.
Epimetheus made the animals, giving out bonuses like swiftness and strength and fur and wings.
By the time Prometheus made man, all the best qualities had been given out.
He settled for making them walk upright, and he gave them fire.


Zeus, pissed off, took it away.
But Prometheus saw his pride and joy shivering and unable to cook.
He lit a torch from the sun and brought it to man again.
To punish Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a rock, where an eagle fed on his liver.
To punish man, Zeus created the first woman

--- Pandora ---

and gave her a gift, a box she was forbidden to open.


Pandora’s curiosity got the best of her,
and one day she opened that box.
Out came plagues and misery and mischief.
She managed to shut the lid tight before hope escaped.


It’s the only weapon we have left to fight the others.



Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

quote for mine

you look at me with those eyes
and you judge me to be immature
yet without knowing
you have casted your first stone

you throw me no pity
no mercy
no grace
no pardon nor favor
for all you see is disgust
all you see is disgrace

you ask for respect
when you give none
you demand things of me
yet you tell me none
you allow me no reason
and you expect me to mature?

be the hypocritical man you are
burn your principles into your skin
let it be etched in your memory
for your ways may be imparted in me
yet there is nothing else for you
when you are a metal rod
that allows no bends
that can only see breaks

i keep looking for bridges
i keep searching for you
but through your narrow mind
no bridge can cross
no path can be taken
for even the path not taken
cannot be my own

rant all you want
but your middle man can't do
for i am my father's son
and his spirit lives in me

neverending

how long has it been since you last were a hypocrite?
how long has it been since you last succumbed
to being a part of the norm
the norm
that tells us to be nice
to be polite
to be a friend

sure

to be a liar
to be a conman
to be one who commits themselves
to underlying lies and cheats
and trick and deceive
the people closest to them
for they truly are the easiest ones


hypocrisy
such an art
and yet
so easy to be broken
all it takes is one of its own
to deceive the deceiver
to betray one's trust

when that one
has been a hypocrite themselves
to lie
cheat
deceive
and betray
only to be betrayed themselves
would that not be salt in the wound?

hypocrites
u want to live with them for they think they know the world
they can manipulate
they can toggle
they can toy
they can play with
with concerns of what they think is right
with thoughts of their ideals
their ideals
of how the world should turn
of so many things
that are never under their control


yet


they choose to pass judgment
they choose to acknowledge their superiority
over their ignorance

and they pass their own judgment



today's message was brought to you by the word : BURN

there is no need

there's no need for words
when you have nothing to say

there's no need for love
when you burn your life away

there's no need for companions
when you're nothing but a loner

there's no need for things
that you know you're not gonna want

and yet with all this needs
nothing comes to mind
but the needs that we yearn for
without desire
the needs that we burn for
with passion
and no understanding
these needs
that turn into wants

and we want so much
so much to see
so much to feel
so much to hurt
so much to joy for
so much to respect
so much to be adored
just so so much



for truly
we never needed anything anyway

riddle me this

here's a riddle,
what's not shared but much sought after
and when shared
you'd wish it wasn't sought after?



a secret.

here's a secret
humans are the biggest form of disappointment ever

it's funny how
we like to take things into our own hands
and not believe that humans are the most complex things in the world.
how we like to believe that everything is predictable.
how we think we're always right
and how we fail to see
that beyond our linear plane of thinking
that plane that is so predictable,
so straightforward and limited,
there is another plane
of the unimaginable
the unthinkable
and that plane is what we call

naivety

we can be so naive as to think
that everybody else thinks like us
that we can think like everybody else
and find out what their next step is
to know what they are going through
and have the exact emotions run through our mind.
and arrive at our own conclusions.
now don't get me wrong
these conclusions are alright
it's when you act upon them
when you take the first step
in trying to aide a friend doesn't need aide
in trying to confront a friend that has nothing to hide.
thats when things get dodgy
whats more
the ignorant
not the naive anymore
mind you
these are people who can be so oblivious to the world around them
as to not see that they could be wrong
and not believe what the other person is saying

disappointment

yet
to those who possess
the intuition
the heart
the sensitivity
to arrive at the right conclusions

i use this words because thats exactly what it is
an unknown thing
that is ingrained
not taught
not learnt
not through experience
but given

being able to act upon their conclusions
in their words and actions
with heart and compassion
are given the honor of


sincerity



today's message was brought to you by the word : EVERYTHING