The Arsonist

A short piece of poetry.

Move from the valley pickup speed on your way
Don't worry you did your crime along the way
and when you find a piece of mind to explain it all,
remember that you cannot live if you're too afraid to die.

Reviews

[Muse]

Is that why we have so much fun when we are young? We feel immortal...dying is not in our vocabulary? Then we grow old...see people around us fade away..we realize that our days are numbered...life becomes a chore.

The title...so bold and so frank. What more can I say. A very good read.

[john]

I think so, I thought about how little I cared about time when I was younger and made so many mistakes I regret.

[Sami Khalil]

A nice poem with a good message...

[Peace]

"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."

Quote
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[†Tracey†]

Wonderful write on the feel of reckless abandonment..at least to me. I love this..xo

[Harry Alston]

'remember that you cannot live if you're too afraid to die' great line.

[Admiral Kirk]

This is really cool. :) So... I see what it's about...

Okay, so the valley represents a low point in your life. So you say, get out of there, and fast. That's a lesson in itself.

Yes, forget the past. It seems most people refuse to do this, eh? But it is something we should do.

And then you top it off with a lesson that overlessons all the other amazingly lessonful lessons. A rap up of all the other lessons. Great for a conclusion.

It was short, but so packed with lessons that my fingers hurt too much to elaborate on. So maybe later. :) Awesome poem.

[john]

Thanks the valley for me represented a bad thing or event so close enough.

Yes the part about the crime is basically that forgetting your past to find something new.

The part about the piece of mind is supposed to represent how sure that you have everything figured out and you know everything you must do.

The last part is to contradict that line and say that you don't know whats going to happen and life always has uncertainty so no need to be so sure of where life takes you. Basically don't be too afraid of life but also don't be too sure of yourself.

[Admiral Kirk]

ha, yeah that's kinda what I meant. :)

Awesome...

That's epic coolness. :)

Yeah, it felt like they went together. Tis why I labeled it your "conclusion". :) That's cool. :)

[john]

I have more on the way :)

[Admiral Kirk]

Awesome. :)