Garbage In/Garbage Out
Contributed by
iansharman on 13/08/10
We sit and we watch,
Passive, unquestioning,
Collecting trash with our eyes,
Dumping it into our minds.
Stories about perfect lives,
Dreams come true,
Triumph over adversity,
Dreams made real.
Good always wins,
And it’s always beautiful.
Evil shows on the face,
That’s what we’re told,
But it’s all a lie,
That we willingly believe,
And out it all comes,
Spewing forth from our mouths.
A torrent of garbage,
That we just can’t stop.
A belief in miracles,
That anyone cares about anything,
Or anyone but themselves.
That it will happen,
That we’re good enough,
We just need to hold on,
And stay true,
But it’s all just the garbage we put in,
Coming out again,
And there’s nothing we can do,
Except stop eating garbage,
But we like the taste.
David Baillie
Crunchy chocolate!
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Rivka Jacobs
Wow, intelligent and philosophical, and set as a poem! Seriously, I say this kind of thing all the time in a lecturing kind of way — filling the mind with garbage is like eating poisonous food, etc. It debilitates the soul, but all of us seem to need the garbage to some degree. But you structured the message as a poem, and it works!
And I like the last line, “But we like the taste.” Because it holds true, for the individual, and the general “we” of the human race. Not everybody’s garbage is the same, but all of us have some form of garbage that we use to keep ourselves from giving up.
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