Day 47. Your Executioner - an Introduction
Day 47 of the Poetry for Peace Poemathon. Saturday 2nd June 2018. There are always those ready and willing to put people down, to decry and defame humanity, especially the individuals themselves. People need reminding of their innate greatness. Enough said, here is the poem.
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Your Executioner - an Introduction
by Steve Cook
Never forget
You're a spirit, my brother,
With potential much greater
Than anyone ever
Let you discover.
You've been told you ain't
Able, immortal or wise,
And the more you agree
The more it'll trap you
In this matrix of lies.
Convinced you're mediocre,
You stopped hoping for much
But the occasional smile
And a chemical crutch.
You switched on the TV
And toned down your dreams,
Made yourself smaller
To fit the machine.
Yet the chains that restrain you
Are entirely self-made,
You live out your days
In a cage of ideas
Held down by your shadow,
In a twilight of fear.
There's nothing more lethal
Than lies self-told,
Spiritual death
By self deprecation,
You know how it goes:
"I'm too small, too scared,
Too feeble, too slow or too old
And there are too many factors
Beyond my control.
I hover forever
On the brink of defeat,
Quietly desperate
To stay on my feet.
You gotta believe me,
I'm not much of a threat,
So worn down by loss
There's not much of me left."
And "I couldn't, I mustn't, I shouldn't,
I daren't or I can't,
Are all ways of saying simply,
"I won't."
Of course, the more that you say it
The more it comes true,
For you are life's only
Source absolute,
And though you elect others
To turn on the juice,
Your sole executioner
Is most certainly you.