Fix You by GenieRaine

"When you try your best but you don't succeed..."

Bruised, cut, and bleeding,
but you get back up anyway,
trying to stand on your own,
waiting for the next punch,
because you're too stubborn, 
too proud,
to ask for help.

"When you get what you want, but not what you need.."

You work and work
and work and work
and work and work...
to feed the fear that 
you will never have enough,
you will never be enough.
You will never be satisfied
with enough.

"When you feel so tired but you can't sleep..."

You're tired from working all the time
but even when you're meant to sleep,
in your mind, you're already working 
for tomorrow, the day after,
the next week, the next month...
You can't sleep, you don't have time for sleep,
you have to work.

"Stuck in reverse..."

When you think you're taking two steps 
forward,
you're taking ten leaps,
back.
And you can't make it stop,
you're grounding your heels into the asphalt,
the smoke rising, stinging your eyes.
And you cry.
You're not meant to be here.

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Comments

m n m n I

19 March 2010

Well done, GenieRaine.
My only other comment is on the second stanza
We usually get what we need, not what we want
We only have a few needs
like food, shelter, the shirt off your back, the internet
We may need a car and we get a car
but not the Porsche that we want

m n m n I

19 March 2010

A GenieRaine poem in style once again
My only other comment is on the second stanza
We usually get what we need, not what we want
We only have a few needs
like food, shelter, the shirt off our backs, the internet
We may need a car and we get a car
but not the Porsche that we might really want
I think we get to the next level when we work for what we want

Good work once again

m n m n I

GenieRaine

19 March 2010

In the second stanza, I didn't mean that at all. Well, technically, Chris Martin didn't mean that at all since he's the man who wrote the song that that line is from. 

       It means, we go out and get what we want because we believe we won't be satisfied until we have it. But the moment it becomes ours, we realise that we never really wanted it in the first place, that we don't need it at all. When it becomes ours ... then what? We're still not happy. 

       Yes, we do "need" food etc. but that is a "want" in itself. We "want" food because we "want" to live. We "want" clothes because we don't "want" to be naked. These so called "needs" are actually what we "want" for us to be able to continue feeding that ever growing obsession with satisfaction. 

       The "need" I'm talking about, is the feeling that our lives are complete, to the point where we no longer "want" anything.

m n m n I

19 March 2010

I guess everything is a want
Time and again, I would reflect on the line in the The Lord's Prayer
"Give us this day our Daily Bread"
I guess that's the ultimate and only need
since everything is given
He's given everything
I guess that's one of the ways He's present while absent
All we have to do is want His plenty
His favorite game is the egg hunt
looking for His treasures
on Easter Sunday
I guess I'm a theist