WELCOME

..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Showing posts with label selfish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selfish. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

Sacrifice

If it were your life or mine,
I can't promise
I wouldn't sacrifice
yours
to save my own.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Girl, You Disgust Me

You disgust me
You flaunt what you think is success
You flaunt what is ill-gotten
and untrue
You whore yourself to the camera
For some hopeful ounce of fame

What you have is self-confidence
forged in the heart of starvation,
Brazen arrogance
pulled from the lust of broken men,
Self-importance
declared in the name of Grand Self.

Do you not see
what what you take
to get where you are
will also be
taken from you?

Do you not comprehend
what you give to gain
the things you have
will be given
unto another?

Monday, June 07, 2010

Selfish

If I can do what I please
and get away with it
If I can act however I want
and no one seems to care
Should I really stop,
or press on?

I'm satisfying what I want
Trying not to be too stupid
If I can take from every pile
Have my cake and eat it too
What's to stop me?
What's to say I shouldn't?

Pity Party

I feel jealous
and left out

but whose fault is that...?
how'd I get myself here, anyway?

I am acting so selfishly
But if no one tried to stop me
     do they [really] care?
Is it really as bad as
     we make believe?