making the best of what time has to offer

you can't go around hating people,
but you can hate their policies.
it is an easy thing to meld into
an idea that it is people doing
all the bad shit we see on the
nightly news, but it is not, it is
their policies which lends them to
their own restrictions.

we have been doing roughly the
same thing for centuries, all the while
expecting different outcomes. it is
the brilliance of insanity at work,
correcting any practical thoughts
we may have.

when you take into account that
we all die
and our most basic needs
are
survival
and love,
it seems a bit preposterous
to think
that we're still wasting time
with politics
and greed
and war
when we have the availability of making life much
easier on the multitude
of human beings
on this clump
of dirt we call
Earth.

differing opinions on the old,
dusty tombs,
handed
down through the eons
has kept us restricted
when really,
they all say the same thing,
'be good to each other.'

maybe it's time to set aside
the parts about
who's dick goes where
and what particle of land
belongs to whom,
and concentrate
on the bigger picture,
'love'.

now love means
something different
to a great many people,
but its root is
acceptance
and
fulfilling
our basic need of
 finding someone
who also accepts us.

I talk a lot about misery
because misery is inherent
in us all
from
one time to another.
we share in the concept
of misery
and we build
from those experiences
to find the best way
to abort
our misery
and move past it.
but most misery
comes from others
making life
miserable because
they, themselves, are miserable
and they want
to gift that suffering upon others.
so when I talk about misery,
about suffering,
about the little death
that gets us all,
I'm looking for a way out.
and maybe my way out
is your way out too.

I'm sick of drinking
bottled water because
the water from the tap taste like
hell
and is filled with a bunch of bullshit
because someone wants us to
purchase our drinking water
when we have more than enough tax dollars
and
technology
to produce clean,
viable drinking water.

if we put as much emphasis
on drinking water
and education
and fair wages
as we do on the next elected official,
or the next iFuck,
or sports figure
with a multi-million dollar contract,
life would suddenly get a lot easier
for
the majority of human beings
inhabiting this small chunk of rock.

but the problem is that
we would have to break down the entire fucking
system
and rebuild it
from the ground up.
Capitalism isn't working.
Socialism isn't working.
Communism isn't working.
Fascism certainly isn't working.
And Anarchy sure as hell won't work either.
we need something for all the people
to get through.
we're only here for a short time.
we want to survive.
we want to live and learn and be happy.
we want to grow before it all ends
and we're off to wherever it is
that we go when it's finished.
so maybe we should make the best of it.
maybe we should start now.