Two Poems

Sleep is like a drug to me;
A fix; a mere necessity;
Each day's added symmetry;
A grand and blissful symphony.

Sleep is but a temptress;
The soft, subtle sarcophagus;
A sleek and fleeting precipice;
An addicting dash of lifelessness.

Sleep is thought the enemy;
A glimpse of glistened infamy.
But sleep is such a friend to me;
My rescue from reality.

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Never shall I wake
Nor another breath I take.
this is not the deal I made.
I did not ask for what you gave.

Let me fly the atmosphere
And watch the glowing sun appear.
Perch me on a mountain top
And feed me ocean's every drop.

Let me sleep forever more
Like the name my grave stone bore.

Creation

Ok. So, life is meaningless. Don't ask me for the explanation on that one. Just grant me that assumption for a second.

I know, it's like a joke now. "Why bother, life is meaningless anyway." But that's not it. It's not that life is meaningless and therefore has no value. No, meaning and value are two different things. Existence and a goal are two different things. You can have value without meaning but you can't have meaning without value. You can have existence without a goal, but you can't have a goal without existence. Well, there isn't meaning, there isn't a goal. But there is value, there is existence.

So, what do we value? I'm not sure what the correct answer is, but I'll tell you what I think it is: creation. What greater thing can you do than create something--to make something come into existence. To bring forth something from nothing. How could you ask to do anything better than that. It's simply miraculous that power we have. I can write a song. I can put words on paper. I can build the house that I live in. I can give life to the children that live in it too. I speak words. Fuck it, I can make up my own words. I can do so many things. Things that were never done before; completely original things. What is better than that?

So, just because there is nothing about us as human beings that gives us a purpose, a meaning, or a focus; just because we aren't teleological beings like JC and all his disciples like you to believe doesn't mean that life isn't worth living, right? There are still things to create. Who needs a god when you can be god?