Where Nothing Is Sacred

Originally written for a contest about screen names.

The most lyrically convincing
declaration; one that wouldn’t be dismissed,
so that I spent hours at work
doing lines, like some insane typing test:

Survival in a twisted world 

where NOTHING is sacred.
 
Thank you, Fear Factory.

I stole and nurtured
until it felt like my own
profound invention,
drumming in my mind

with the sincerity and violence
of a tribal war cry.

For nothing is sacred,
despite the pedestals we build -
directed by media managers,
the persistent influence they wield.

We raise them up
to knock them down.

Idolising, a dangerous past time,
for figures closely examined
are unveiled as mocking shadows;
dancing and beckoning
to the naïve and desperate.

En masse, nobody has any respect
for the things you hold dear
it’s either that they don’t know
or they just don’t care;

their mindless flaunting
drives mortals to tears.

I trust the time will come when
the lessons taught
through mature experience
will take hold:

forget and abandon
all icons and heroes.

 

Reviews

[Raef C. Boylan]

The sentiment of this is good, but your rhyme scheme is very inconsistent, which made me stumble a few times when reading it, because i'd get used to it rhyming and then it would pretty much stop.

Interesting story though.
A line from a song that means a lot to you.

Thanks for posting this and good luck with the contest.

[Victoria Lee~]

I think this is brilliant. I very fascinating write. And a perfect write. Kudo's to you...

[lostintheworld]

The media is not fooling me!!!!

nice work.

i read the two lined stanzas separately and it's kinda cool that it works that way too...like a flash poem embedded within...

[The Unseen Warrior]

I loved it, it made me relax and it put my mind at ease for some reason.

[Ryan Gilroy]

nothing is truly sacred as we hold up idols who get their fame from either enjoying their sexual liasons are caught on tape and plastered over the internet, the media, and we thrive upon it. We make Paris Hilton a celebrity who gets famous for absolutely nothing. A spoiled child of our privilidged American life who gets famous for nothing. Britney Spears gets famous for singing carrer and have her job get tanked and has a couple of kids and then she gets judged and who are we to define why she is still news. Why has our mind be dilluted into such mindless chatter and not discuss civics issues on television, why have we switched from intellectual stimualation such as debate and argument to wondering if Paris Hilton is an unfit member of society. I do like your poem as it proves why we have a culture of naive notions and stupid people who dumb us down so we can be docile, indolent, and just dumb people.