542. Collective Torment

Have you not yet heard?

There are no more exceptions.

There is only the rule.

A world of false expectations,

Where the discerning are labeled: ‘fool’,

And inquiry…Absurd!

Have you really not seen?

There are no individuals.

There are only collectives…

Born of social, hierarchical rules,

Where all allegedly ‘real’ victim-hood lives,

Above the law,…blood-soaked, yet clean…

…As individual victims mount.

K. Aldaya, 5/23/21

Picture: Photo of August Landmesser, 1936; https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/non-conformity/refusal-to-salute/

541. The Unconscious Sea

The wave, it washes o’er,

And pulls me out to sea,

Yet how can I swim away?

When the ocean is me?

I can not stop the flow,

Of thoughts through synapses;

Nor the depths therein which drown…

Moments in lapses…

…Of consciousness.

K. Aldaya, 5/20/21

Picture: By Velizar Ivanov on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/UoALJojNPcs

540. Underdeveloped

-Sex ruins everything-

It turns love into lust,

And turns devotion into resident dust.

It turns ‘friend’ into ‘other’,

And turns the loved into the devoured lover…

Turns depths into superficials…

Diminishing human souls to mere receptables.

-Sex ruins everything-

K. Aldaya, 5/19/21

Picture: By Marie-Michele Bouchard on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/pWTlz9RfAN8

539. It’s Hard to Believe…So Don’t

You don’t want to believe,

And you do not care,

Because you do not have to.

You live comfortably…

Unaware.

For you will not believe,

What you have not known;

So, you’ll cast away my words,

Leaving me in silence…

All alone.

I don’t want to believe,

Though I have no choice.

Living is the greatest proof,

That I can not trust you,…

With my voice.

K. Aldaya, 5/18/21

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538. Meretricious

You’re ignorant, and you’re fine with it.

You don’t really want to know some things.

You’re ignorant, and I’m used to it.

You love that you get to look down,

On everything;

As “Hypocrite”.

You’re ignorant, and I despise it.

You don’t really want to care at all.

You’re ignorant, and you savor it.

You live heedless of rejection,

Or dismissal;

Without merit.

You’re ignorant, and revel in it.

You don’t really want me to exist.

You’re ignorant,…with no deposit,

You gain what you’ve no rights to…

Laugh and subsist,

As counterfeit.

K. Aldaya, 5/3/21

Picture: By Tiko Giorgadze on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/uc6uKmUnGsg