the little things

i'm in a place of
expressive
distance.
i can't relate
with many people.
while i can understand their
suffering,
i can't seem to connect with their
motivation.
i see most things in life
to be a scam,
many of those things that other
people use to escape reality.
i believe that anything organized
is just a scheme to initiate a scam,
a way to generate revenue
for an idea that has been played
over and over.
i don't understand why certain people
subject themselves to religion,
politics, sports, television,
popular music, credit,
student loans, violence,
greed, self improvement,
doctors, or purpose.
this all seems like an elaborate dream
where absurdity wins.
we're all looking for answers
to unanswerable questions
with vague meanings.
we have X amount of time
to come up with these
answers after our wick is lit,
hoping to gain some type of insight
into the meaning of life before we're spent.
i think some people have missed the point
when they spend the entirety of their life
working
on gaining the most money they can before they expire.
then again, some of us fool ourselves into
believing we're writers when all we're doing is chronicling
a particular point of interest in time
to eventually be forgotten
when the genre is used up.
while others look for ways
to screw the public by any legal means necessary
to instill misery and hopelessness upon the masses.
don't get me wrong,
i have fell for scams.
i took out a loan from a
predatory lender
almost a decade ago
and defaulted on the loan when i was laid off
from my job after my company sold out
to a much bigger company.
the loan went into judgment
and i'll pay the price
according to the law.
it's a fact of life.
we don't always make the right decisions
at the right time.
some people have the luck
while others become swallowed up by it.  
but i learnt from my mistake of trusting
that my government wouldn't allow
such deceitful practices to take place, not to be
taken advantage of in what i was told is the greatest
nation in the world.
we become jaded by our experiences:
burn your hand in fire,
never put your hand in the fire again.
-become taken advantage of by someone you love,
don't open yourself up in the same way again.
we're careful after we've been used.
but yet we fall for the same old scams,
ran by new and shiny leaders
looking for a way to cash in on our sorrow.
we want the easy answers
when there isn't an easy answers to be had.
so enjoy the little things:
love your wife, your husband, your children,
accept what the world has to offer in the way
of small joys.
be thankful for what you have and not for what
you think you deserve.
and understand that everything you acquire
will have to be worked for.
nothing is free in this land of freedom,
not even love.
none of us are entitled to a damn thing
beyond the beating of our hearts,
and even that is subject to the laws
of change.
be simple
and live simple
and you'll miss nothing
of what life has to offer.