the world is beautiful [if you don't mind the screaming]

[cracking muse]

I realised the world is beautiful,
if you don’t mind the occasional
scream for help or cry for
salvation. If you don’t mind the
glimpse of life through another’s
eyes, fatal words placed together.
If you don’t mind the smirk
of that certain someone who is
driving you insane.

I realised the world is beautiful,
if you can handle the bombs
going off in another country,
or maybe (maybe) this one too.
If you can handle a dying soul
every so often, one less to add
to the grief. If you can handle
the children going without
dinner for the fourth night in
a row.

I realised the world is beautiful,
if you are worthy to have happiness,
a smile plastered on your face whether
it is genuine or not. If you are worthy
of the song bouncing of the walls
of this box we were placed in.
If you are worthy of somehow following
every single one of those little
fads and crazes that seem to rule
our society.

I realised the world is beautiful,
if you don’t care that the girl
down the street is being beaten by her
father every night. If you don’t care
that the boy two blocks away tries
to impress, but fails every time. If
you don’t care the family the next
town over is starving some of
the time, and dying inside
all of the time.

I realised the world is beautiful,
if you don’t mind meeting
the mortician at the end
of the road.

[J.KMcDaniel]

Nice poem... yet isn't the world protrayed( in your point of view) a little Negative, Dark? But i guess you r right. Poems are just an artwork of literature... But i'd like to think the world is beautiful in every Good and positive way... a iMPRESSIONIST hUh?
Never mind..... :) But i luvvvv luvvv your poem... Such GRANDEUR!!!!
What do you think of SHakespeare?

[cracking muse]

Yes, it is rather dark, isn't it? But that tends to be my writing style, generally.

I am glad you enjoyed my piece.

Shakespeare? I like some of his work. I am rather sick of Romeo and Juliet, though. Too over-played. But I love McBeth.

[J.KMcDaniel]

Yes, i agree. What do you think of Lurlene McDaniel?:)

[cracking muse]

The name sounds familar, but I honestly can't put my finger on it. Wait. Let me use the power of Google.

Oh! I've read a couple of her books in the One Last Wish Series, there was one about a girl who gets AIDs, I think. I read them a couple years ago.

Have you read anything by Ellen Hopkins?

[jon1jt]

this poem reminds me of Daniel Johnston's line: "I got a flat tire down memory lane." so real so true, and so we acknowledge the collective suffering, and often participate in it, empathically. this leads me to a line from Mazzy Star who said: "Ride on baby ride on." life goes on, as it must. And so to the mortician we go, right on.

I enjoyed reading your poem.

[cracking muse]

Thank you very much!

[Pensive]

Interesting. World is probably not as good as the optimistcs make it seem.


I realised the word is beautiful,
if you don’t care that the girl
down the street is being beat by her
father every night. If you don’t care
that the boy two blocks away tries
to impress, but fails every time. If
you don’t care the family the next
town over is starving some of
the time, and dying inside
all of the time.

I think in the first line, it should be 'world' instead of word. Seems like a typo.

And shouldn't it be 'is being beaten by her father every night'?

[cracking muse]

Ah! Yes, you are right. I'll fix those right away.

Thanks for catching those.

[Taliesin]

We quite like it you know, because it has a certain objectivism, yet, and yes, We know that this poem has ironic in a way,but we feel that it is true, the world is beautiful, in spite of the screams, beautiful and ugly at the same time.
It's a funny old world.

[ampoule]

I enjoyed your poem. Life happens very quickly and perhaps by the time it all sinks in the only thing left to do is regret. But life, the world, is beautiful because there is always hope.

[cracking muse]

Thank you to both of you! :)

It is, indeed, an funny old world.

[firefangled]

I like this. It reminds me of a long version of Wallace Stevens's Gubbinal, which refrains, "The world is ugly and the people are sad..."

Nicely done.

[cracking muse]

Thank you! :)

I don't believe I've read that one. I'll have to go google it now. :D

[blazeofglory]

I got absorbed indeed !!! indeed very deeply going.

[cracking muse]

Thank you so much!

[Bakiryu]

I love your poem so much!
It's darkly beautiful and so true.

[cracking muse]

Aw, you are very kind.

The Tardis? Oh my gosh, are you a fellow Doctor Who fan?

[Bakiryu]

Aw, you are very kind.

The Tardis? Oh my gosh, are you a fellow Doctor Who fan?

:alien: One of those crazed fangirls?

:D Hell yeah!

We even have a fanclub here in the litnet:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28320

[toni]

I enjoyed it immensely..Your pen is powerful! Thank you for writing it:)

[cracking muse]

:alien: One of those crazed fangirls?

:D Hell yeah!

We even have a fanclub here in the litnet:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28320

Ooooh, am I ever. :)

[cracking muse]

Thanks Toni!

[suicidel]

it's a very beautiful poem. i think that maybe if we wouldn't ignore all the things you said about the world and try to make a bit of a difference we might make it truly beautiful one day.

[cracking muse]

I agree.

Thanks. =)

[meow22]

Your writing reminds a lot of Ellen Hopkins, her writing is golden and never has a dull moment. I can never seem to peel my eyes away when reading. I felt that exact same way when reading your poem. It was beautiful, really great work.