Wonderful Existence

29 May 2021 Saturday Poetry Prompt Response

Is this what I leave behind? A broken systemic cycle that perpetuates those at the bottom will stay at the bottom. Feeding a time machine where every moment is accounted for, but that no longer keeps time. Consuming the best years of your life with no possibility of parole.

The machine is broken, but we keep feeding it just the same. Fear of the unknown nurtured into us. Just because this is how it's always been done, does not mean it is the only way — and it does not mean it still the right way. More questions than answers. Pandora's box, open, and spewing knowledge around the room.

It's chaos but the hard choices reap the biggest rewards. There has to be more. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀More to this life.

Is this enough to keep me bound to this earth, to a system that refutes me? When I have seen the unknown. When I have been out there, unconstrained, unscripted, without care, without direction, without knowing the destination. When I have lived more life in less time, experienced more beauty than I ever thought was possible.

It’s not enough, the pay is not worth it, the exchange is unfair and I will not give more of my life, my valuable life to a broken machine, to something that doesn't speak to this existence.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀This wonderful existence.

© 2021 Niki Madore

I am not sure if I followed the instructions very well, but there was a flow and I just followed it. Regardless, superb prompt J.D. thoroughly enjoyed it.

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