Worth

I am keeping a taring machine in my attic. You all are free to drop by anytime to measure your "worth" :-)

Worth is not measured in innate quality
Rather the outer package is but all.
They have an invisible logbook kept in space
Where unknown friends with subaltern egos
Give a tick and make note
Who is absent
Presence or absence indeed determines worth.

Bullshit sets standards so there's nothing new to set
You can run all day in the tread mill
But you cannot lose a single ounce of sticks and wings you ate.
You cannot possibly have an outer life
But you need to live a worthless real life
To prove your worth there
Possibly because your worth
In the big bad world is worthless.

Don't play around with the stringent rules
Play along with lies and sweet words if you're smart
Live in a fool's paradise if you are not.

I would like to laugh silently but with stupendous force
So that thousands of waterfalls set off like canons
In a ballistic missile fight between post war Russia and the US
A war never fought
Simply because it's foolish
Fools fly and for the same reason
Fools die first.

Some have run away or have spit out
The spit has but fallen back on them
Because anger is a weak sign
When bellowing bulls fight with magical cats
It is anybody's guess which side I am on.

I have striven to prove my worth
I guess so have you
The only difference between you and me is
I have a life and have worth in it
Whereas you
I am sorry to say
(It is sad but true)
Have none.

© Nothing Personal. January 29, 2011.

Author's Note

A rant some would say,
Nonsense some others,
Some could say this makes sense
And get pissed off with me,
I would only laugh a little
& say aloud "This one's got no worth".
-NP

Reviews

[Magdelena]

Well I like it! It has meaning, depends on who is reading it and how they take it. I like the deepness of it, for what it's worth. :)

Nicely done.

Mags xx

[trainwreck]

This one is pretty awesome. I love your word play in all of your works.