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Mari berbagi cermin hidup.

Selasa, 28 Juni 2016

ARE YOU A BETTER PERSON?

Hey, I heard you had a really good job
Get paid so handsomely, roam around the world
Buy things, hoard things, make abundant new friends and win big attention
How you feel you are the center of the universe
The thumbs are all up for you, champion!
Big applause!
Hush, hush…

Are you a better person now?

And you, you have become so popular
Now that the long-hard work is awarded
Many believe you are the hero they’ve been seeking
Many others are dying with jealousy over you
What’s there you keep in your closet and under your carpet that you don’t let others know?

Are you really a better person now?

And yeah baby, you look hot now
Those pills, sweats and so-so did you well?
Now you can look people in the face, stare at mirrors with awe
Spread your charm around, smile radiantly, give kind gestures and break some hearts
Blind faith to organic stuff and you make sure you are super clean toxin-free
Grimace at other ‘dirty’ people and the waste and the garbage
So certain you are far better than others

 Is it how a better person supposed to be?

So you get married, raise a family, and hatch some healthy-beautiful children
Oh you live so comfortably secure and so socially normal
You will plan many years ahead with confidence
Your clock is ticking and you make sure you keep your time
Tick, tock, tick, tock…
It’s counting down towards something.
And what is that something?

Then I wonder, how is that making you a better person?

Religious ones, again, who are you trying to fool?
With that pious and god-fearing look of you
Your lies turn sickly transparent
The day you go straight for the knife and kill each other
And you scream ‘God bless us, not you!’

How can hatred possibly make you a better person?

O wise ones,
Shamans, healers, all the so-called spiritual people and alike
Desperate and confused souls rely on your mysterious-clever chanting
That even you start believing your own bullshits
Losing common sense in this real world and misunderstanding real problems

I really don’t believe you can make yourself a better person, let alone others

And I,
Am I a better person?
I don’t know. I can’t say. It’s hard to tell.
All the things I had, did, tried, believed
Could not, cannot ensure me now that I am a better person.

You know, what I believe is,
If we are better persons than we were before,
Then this world should be a better world now.
But this world is surely not a better world now.
It’s just getting worse and worse…

Or maybe I don’t understand the world
Maybe I misread the killings, the wars, the oppression, the overpopulation, destruction, poverty, hunger, pollution, the pain, the hatred, senselessness, selfishness, the greed, the fear, the despair, loneliness, ignorance, the lies, deceits, manipulation, the injustice, discrimination, violence, mistreatment, over-consumption, neglect, addiction, diseases, the confusion, the lost souls, the alienation …       

But, say, are you a better person?  
Tell me, where do we go from here?
I think we are lost.




Ub, June 28, 2016. 

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