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Think


There is no simple way to convey the beauty of the idea of thought

Thinking is an action all of us can do

Though many times people don’t think very much

And of course, what a waste,

To be able to think

and to spend all that time

Mentally spaced

You are useless

if you aren't giving thought to what you say,

To what you feel,

To what you believe.

No crazy person has thoughts like yours

But I’m certain he has better thoughts than yours

Would you think that when a mind snaps like that

That it thinks a bit clearer?

No Lines, No Boundaries

Free Reign

Past the constraints of

This thing,

"We have rules!

This is what you should know,

This is how you should think,

This is what you must believe in."

I'm past that

Here I am

Outside looking in at these foolish people

Constrained by society and not thinking about anything useful

Just Sex, Drugs, and Dubstep.

Ignoring new ideas, “Business as usual."

These people waste their lives, waiting for something bigger than they to come down and help them.

There is no bigger.

There is only us.

We motivate ourselves to do what we must.

Those who put meaning into their lives from a simple disguise

For power

Are not thinking

They do not see

That people are people, and shall always be,

Different than you, nothing that we

Understand.

 

“I know that I hung on a windy tree

nine long nights,

wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,

myself to myself,

on that tree of which no man knows

from where its roots run.

No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,

downwards I peered;

I took up the runes, screaming I took them,

then I fell back from there."

 

The knowledge I have is my own.

Do I share it with thee?

No.

You have not made yourself worthy.

Go on with your simple lives

Or think, for once, in them.

About them.

Go on.

 
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