what urge will save us now that sex won't?

[Raz]

ANGER.
Angry is better than sad.
Don't let your ocean roll away made of tears when it can be waves of pounding blood that propel you forward; over the backs of everyone who hurt you and betrayed you; over your own body when betrayal comes from home, when karma is the bitch holding the choker chain. Don't lose sight of that red tight air because that red tight air will keep you alive.
Your anger will keep you alive.

LOVE.
There needs to be more love than anger. Don't lose sight of the people who believed in you when you didn't know what to believe in; don't forget that you saw that for yourself. And if you haven't seen it for yourself, look harder. Anger will tell you to fight, but love will remind you what you're fighting for.
Love will remind you what you're fighting for.

FOCUS.
There is an urge to focus that doesn't feel natural, because we just want to lash out. We want our emotions to judge us and the world around us and we want to act accordingly. We want to live always in the present, though we get mired in the past. We get bogged down when we lose our focus, because everything becomes a reaction to something else, and the future is unknown. The unknown will kill you if you don't face it the right way; focus and live.
Focus and live.




Apologies to Jenny Holzer for stealing my title from her....these are just random thoughts which have organised themselves in my mind after recent events, so this is more a cathartic thing for me than an actual attempt at any kind of writing.

 

[(Wordy)]

Don't lose sight of that red tight air because that red tight air will keep you alive.
Your anger will keep you alive.

Wow, 'red tight air'... I like that!

 

[Pimp Lazy]

Anger always seems to be a lack of acceptance. Trying to force something that isn't true. Otherwise there'd be no need to be angry. It would be just like you want it. Maybe rationally sad, but progressive, is better than angry. Anger certainly isn't useful. Only rational behaviour has positive outcomes. Even if in anger action is rational it certainly isn't so because of the emotions. It is so because of the rational thoughts behind the actions. Hope life treats you well(er) .

PAX,
PL

 

[Raz]

^^^Thanks for your reply, I'm glad I provoked thought; I think anger is definitely useful in some situations, it has kept me alive when everything else fell apart until I was ready to move on to the rational approach....it's just different philosophies really though I guess, and as a wise man once sang, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum...and what might be right for you might not be right for some.

 

[Pimp Lazy]

Maybe once you try my drum you'll really like the rim and the head (that's not sex talk ) and notice the tone. I'm not saying I always act as I'm saying, but I've seen the light! Yessssssummmmmmm! Iiiiiiii seeeeeen the light! When I walk that road everything is better, but I suppose I only walk it when I'm not psychotic which is growing less and less thankfully. I really do think it applies in most people's lives.

You are correct though sir! Anger does lead to survival, but when you're not in a survival sitcheeaaashun I think it leads to destruction. And very few of us (I hope) are in survival situations. It seems anger just makes the cycle continue.

PAX,
PL

 

[New]

Love will remind you what you're fighting for.

This line really stood out to me, mostly because I never think in terms of love. I usually think of it as an emotion that applies to "not me". I never saw it that way before. Thanks for that.

 

[colicolo]

Raz, you seem to get the right words in the right place everytime. Your work speaks so loud, true, clear and correct.

Your anger will keep you alive.
Love will remind you what you're fighting for.
Focus and live.

orgasmic

 

[IXinX]

angry and complex angst being expressed here.
The wording and structure of it is nearly all didactic, offering no argument as to what is said by the writer./poet

i don't know what i want so being told what we want is sort of assumptive. But its always good to try to order what is going on in your life by writing it down.