Don’t overcomplicate it.
It is what you make it.
So many mistake it
for what they want,
and break it.
Imagine standing naked
in the dark and cold,
dead hands grasping at you
from the unknown.
Imagine being trapped
in famine and destruction.
All the pain and disarray
of total aggression.
Remember when
you lost your friend?
No end to loneliness then.
A lover gone,
a pain without a border.
Chaos from order.
All we understand
is that we want it over.
Things are so simple then,
aren’t they.
Through the chaos,
through the disarray.
Now you’re here
in your comfortable state,
looking for things
to overcomplicate.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Something must have damaged you
to look at all this ease
and seek to find out where it’s weak
to try to bring it down.
Or maybe it’s your gift
to take a shit on all of this
and make us miss
when times were simpler.
Growth
comes with pain,
and blood and flames,
so maybe it’s inevitable.
But who
died and made you
the arbiter of change,
the coming “Peace Destroyer?”
Oh,
remember how
it used to be so simple?
We don’t have to burn it down
over things so trivial.
Remember,
when violence starts,
all anybody wants
is for it to be over.
It doesn’t get
much simpler
than that kind of exposure.
Do you really want to go
back to square one?
do you really want
the end to come?
Life is as simple
as you make it.
Don’t overcomplicate it.
DJR – 2023
