if the asteroid doesn’t miss

(we got the cutest little cameras hanging everywhere

after a while you just forget they’re there – tony carey)

if this is your last day

what would you say?

 

seriously?

 

i know i don’t usually question the consequences

but it’s not the end i find meaningless

it’s, well, i said it best when i said,

 

“i’m trying to believe that life is more than pain and death

that on our way to final days when we take our last breath

there’s something more we have in store then suffering and waste

oh why do we dive in each day with purpose and with haste

 

the end is near and i my dear have found no reason why

we dance amid the suffering just so that we can die

but when they hear me speak of this they simply walk away

until i know the meaning of i can’t choose a pathway

 

each day i hear the newscast say a hundred thousand bled

and i have learned when it’s my turn that i’ll be just as dead

and when i die the reason why will not need to be told

it’s why we live the way we live that i now need to know

 

for i am just a worker bee within this honeyed hive

the honey spreads upon the bread as we work to provide

but there is still no meaning just an act that fulfills needs

we give this need our meaning and then live a life of greed”

 

all i’m asking is if this is it

have you been doing what you truly want?

or have you been dutiful

waiting for that someday?

 

that someday which may never come

and most likely won’t

 

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