Revalations

July 08 2006

There's one moment in your life when you realize the world is changing. You don't know how or why, but you want to be the one who steps up and says 'This - this is wrong.'


You don't. You sit there with false hopes and false starts, and pretend to be your normal shallow self. You can block out the world, but your conscience is always with you.


As you're walking away from cash registers, you see boxes. Boxes that read 'Save the Children' or 'Heal the Abused.' You give your spare change away to these funds, as your head thinks blasphemous things like 'Can pennies save kids? Can nickels heal the abused?'


When the revolution comes, you think, you will be the first to die.


You forget to think, how many others will die with me?


You are selfish until the end.



--taken from the story I am writing.