A Fallacy

If you thought the world is beautiful, you might want to think again. (also ps this is pretty controversial so take it as you will)

It does not take much to convince the naive

That humankind would get better than this

But it is terribly foolish for one to believe

That the flawed man would one day achieve world peace

 

Where corruption reigns and greed prevails

Where one is worshipped for establishing superiority

Children continue to bleed and die in our hands

And our ears continue to be fed with deceit and hypocrisy


 

The most foolish preach the most

The idealists advocate their visions,

unrealistically grandiose

The shallowest glorify the unworthy,

The conceited b******s shamelessly thinking they've not yet lost

 

Alas, the worst of all

The ordinary, foolish man

Banishing from his thoughts

His friends, brothers and sisters

For they were not as luxurious as he was,

He was ashamed,

For they were not the same

Who would ever acknowledge

The unknown, the disgraced

The damned, the cursed

The unsaved, the forgotten

Alas, it is the worst!

 

When will we, foolish humans,

Ever be enlightened by the simple revelation

Life is a sham, a masquerade

We’re nothing more than chess pieces

And in this game, there is no checkmate

Undeniably, there will only be victory

When us, the foolish humans, are dead

 

Attempting to salvage the unscathed remnants of humanity

We try coming to terms that we are more than a feeble race

But this world does not resemble a haven of perpetual pleasure

And life is merely cheap wine leaving us with every bitter aftertaste

 

And when we learn that each and every of us must fall

Will we only realise
This ostensibly beautiful world,
Is not a pretty place to be living in after all.

Author's Note

Please ignore grammar problems, thank you.

Reviews

[Haley]

words cannot describe how much i enjoyed this. i connected to it on such a personal level, it seems like something i could have written myself. i find myself riddled with thoughts extremely similar to the thoughts you have illustrated here.

[Nisha M.]

I appreciate this so much, Haley! Thank you so much for reading!!