The Rage

I've missed you James

It's not a rhyme

It's not a syllable

It is a lifestyle

You can see it

You might feel it

But you cannot be it

Without,

A most painful impetus

A dire tragedy

Something quite personal

Something very fierce

Burning into you...

A very wrathful vengeance

From a kind of wrong

To you objectively

From something devastating

To all effectively

Ruining, taking something

To replace your loss

A thing quite Precious, Irreplaceable

Making war, from something 

Beautiful 

Turning peace

Into a disaster, uncorrectable  

You only know it

By how you feel it

Deep inside your bones

Deep inside your mind

It is how you think

When you cannot think 

Sense be damned

Reason be twisted

The Rage

That feeling

Piercing

Heated

Unquenchable

Without the sword

Unsatisfy-able    

Without the violence

 without the blood

  without the ruin

It will not stop

It cannot waver

This knowledge that your searching

For the darkest goal

Will come to fruition

Sense be damned

And no one,

Not no one, can stop you now

From the worst 

From the absolute sacrifice 

You will not subside

You take what's yours

 and the world down with you 

For The Rage,

All reason will be forgotten

For the Rage, now

There is only feeling

And it is, unmistakable

If it is within you

There are no limits

If you have it with you

Then All will suffer

And All will pay

And There is no end

Not one survives

Until the rage subsides

This is the beast 

It is no man

This is no women

It is emotion

That will kill us all

Author's Note

That was a non-standard description of a complete and total anger driven psychopath. If you identified with that poem I urge you to talk to someone. Everyone is a little bit crazy, don't feel ashamed, but NEVER let it consume you. The Rage can be incredibly productive when you let someone help you focus it. We didn't become the dominant animal on this planet by flying solo.

Reviews

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

You get a standing ovation from me my friend. A very harrowing honest piece of poetry whose message resonates in today's society unfortunately. It is in news stories everyday and the lives lost to it. This emotion will be the destruction of us if we do not learn to be better people towards one another.

[Davidgeo]

I think you are a liar.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I wouldn't say it if I didn't feel it. I would just ignore it.

[KWP]

Hmmm, totally relatable. And you know I am not just saying that - totally relatable. I am reading a book called dark Emu, it's about the Australian Aboriginal agriculture before white man cam and ruined the thousands of year old well kept Australian soil, but I digress. This book talks about my fourth great grandfather - he was an early Aussie Explorer and Surveyor, he traveled all over. the East Coast of Aus and further afield into the dessert. This is how he was described .... 'Imagine you are riding beside the explorer and Surveyor Najor Thames Mitchell (1792 - 1855) He is an educated and sensitive man and great company, if a little eccentric. He's a great bushman, and a poet, and a painter, but he is also a HOT HEAD. Under some circumstances, he is obstinate and difficult and credited with fighting the last duel in Australia (he only shot through his opponents hat!

The point here is HOT HEAD - I laughed out loud when I read this. It's true. I am exactly the same. It's in my blood. It's in my dad's blood. We take no crap. One moment there is control. Next moment there are fireworks exploding from my head (and not the pretty kind).

So yes, reding your words here, totally relatable, sometimes I wish I could change this, and I am certain I can, but. that would mean sitting on a rock and simply allowing the world to pass me by.

Should I get help? Hmmm maybe ... but knowing myself is easy, it is the practise of being a better person which is hard.

[Davidgeo]

The line is fine, between what you are and what you would like to be. Some of us know better all the time, others only sometimes, a few never even a little. Violence is quite useful in a cage. A hot head is also useful but in a different way. Garfield, that f*****g cat, it's why he's so famous.

[Ada]

Rage is a very powerful emotion and you do nice job showing how quickly it can consume you.

[Betty Hermelee]

Sometimes our emotions overcome us, to the extent that we cannot function as human beings. One such emotion, as you speak, is rage, rage within oneself, possesses you to the point of dysfunction. And, add to that, the people around you; those who cannot tolerate one's rage; it affects you, your family, and friends. In a sense in isolates you from the outside world.
Good food for thought...
Best, Betty

[R.J Calzonetti (Siniste..]

I enjoyed this, thanks for sharing.I know this review is short, I’m a little busy, but I really felt a connection there, and some wise words.