Because Dragons Have Gold

.it's why I climb mountains... consistent rationality is the ghost of a finite mind. (none of this truly matters and it's really pretty up there).

There's a saying, "never cast pearls before swine"

I think of it frequently

When I murder mosquitos

Or attack the absurdity

 Of modern human reason

You should know. . .

I do never revive them

When it ends

When it's over

I always leave their dead bodies on me

Festering and rotting

As a warning...

To the helplessly lost

Whining for softness

For all them allergic to change

I want to tell them. . .

That this world is not moral

And I cannot truly help you

I can only savagely kill you

   (so to speak)

So you may rise once again

If you want to. . .

If you can

If you have the reason

For the better

For the worse

Either way

A part of somebody gets defined

Specifically

So that they may own

             some f****n' gold

      of their own

Before they die

And become forgotten

Reviews

[Joshua Carl Cruz]

Interesting point of view here, could go on like a dragon's lair with lots more description. very cool feeling to it. a word on do never, why not switch them to never do? and take the article out of for better or worse because it's an idiom we never use the in and i think it will hit on the specifically better it becomes a ten syllable stanza try it out. i liked it buddy!

[Davidgeo]

Not horrible suggestion's. But it was a conscious choice for me to word the opening of that stanza like that, as well as "for the better... etc. etc.." These are stylistic choices. As far as counting syllables, eh, I gave up on that form crap years ago; too many people do exactly the same thing and I think it hinders originality. I stick to free form almost exclusively now, I don't like to be beholden to standards, otherwise I'd write prose. If it sounds right to me when I write poetry that's all that really matters to me.

[Joshua Carl Cruz]

if it sounds good to you then i'm glad thats what matters. take care