Hate

What causes us to hurt one another? What motivates us to harm someone else for no reason? To take something that isn't ours? Why does it seem that we are not inherently good but evil? I look back and see the genocides of the Holocaust, Darfur, Rwanda, and Cambodia and can't even begin to understand how we can do such things to one another. The amount of hate it to takes to think that killing millions of people, for no other reason than their ethnicity, is a good thing is staggering.

Is it that hard to love one another?

Last Breath

You only remember the highs and lows in life. The mundane and the superficial we forget.

Passion leads to soaring heights and diving chasms. Pain and joy are things you take with you for the rest of your life. No one can take these things from you. They help shape who you are. And when you lead a life with fervent passion the peaks outnumber the valleys.

When you are drawing your last breaths will you remember your life? Will it be full of memories and accomplishments. Of love and giving. Of pain and tears. Of lessons learned and hard fought battles. Or will it just be a gray twilight of superfluous existence?

It's not too late...

Mystery

I am someone who likes to have all the answers. When someone asks me a question usually I am able to answer it. If I can't, I can atleast reason through to give an educated guess. And I'm the type of person who later tries to figure out if his guess was right or wrong so he doesn't have to guess again. Humanity as a whole is like that. We strive and yearn for the answers. We are proud when we have them. And when we don't we will try to give it our best shot but sometimes we are left wanting. And the more questions we answer the more that get raised. I try to act like I know everything, but I couldn't tell you how a collection of atoms creates a living, breathing, thinking being; so obviously I don't. but I would like to. I don't think we are supposed to get all the answers. I think some things are supposed to be mysteries.

Changed

I will never be the same
I will never be the same
You rose from your Grave
So I could be changed

And I will never be the same
I will never be the same

You came to save
You came to save
You bled away my sins
You washed away my pain

I surrender because you took the pain
For the rich and the poor
You died to save

And I will never be the same
And I will never be the same

Tick Tock

Unchanging and inexorable
It speeds by when you want it to slow
It crawls when you want it to dash past
Looking back there wasn't enough
In the moment there's too much
...A constant that is always the same but never the same...