It doesn’t interest me what you dream for,
What you ache for,
as everyone do and always for more.
But do you have something to show for,
Something you everyday work for.
It doesn’t interest me,
how old you are.
If you have never learned,
If still you are a child,
Still a fool who will risk all.
For a dream, for love
You were too blind to see,
it was never there at all
I don’t want to know,
If you are one of those,
who reveal their pain to everyone they meet,
Yet never try to fix it, understand it.
I want to know, you are not
Who leave someone in-between,
Who leave when it gets too hard.
Who tell their side of stories like a broken record.
I want to know the stories you told are true to heart.
I don’t want to know what new thing you have,
What new thing you did for your Instagram,
I want to know, you are not blind,
Not everything is beautiful,
Not everything that shines.
I want to know you can’t live with failure,
Neither yours nor mine.
You won’t stand and say, it’s all fine.
U will go that extra step, at the end of the ocean.
And shout “No”
I want you to know,
Don’t be that person who pretend,
Who says he is better alone, and content.
Love is a scary thing, be scared
But remember
Happiness is only real when shared.
Why I wrote this poem?
This is a counter poem of a famous poem, you can read here The Invitation by Oriah. All paragraphs are written to be a counter of ones in the original poem. A try of mine to prove(proof by example) all poems, songs, stories are like self help books. They are self conflicting and beautified with exotic words. you just have to write some half decent opinions and people will relate.
No matter how conflicting, when we read things like these, we believe, we think of change, we hope that from now things will get better.
For few seconds we pretend too. I wonder if those faded few seconds should be called hope, but definitely a good marketing strategy.
I guess one should never take poems, motivational quotes/books too seriously. All our lives are different, and almost all are meaningless. Bear it as best as you can.
