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principles
I used to live
by my three
principles.

Tolerance
Forgiveness
and tact.

Today they all went splat.

To the f*** with tact
I'm so damn angry
Whats the use of tolerance
When all of them shit****s?
How can I forgive
After forgiving for so long?

I'm tired of my three principles.

How useless they seem now
compared to flamethrowers
and sarcasm and cynicism
stupid principles
they've caused me this pit
a black acid pit of pain and sadness and forever sorrow
what use are my three Principles
Paired with snobs and ass****s and idiots?

How can I ever be
tolerating
forgiving
and
tactful

Again?

For when the rage rage against the sun
dies down
I'm left empty
A shell of broken dreams
with nothing to hold but my
mutilated
Three Principles.

chiiyo's comments :
A flame war at one of my previously beloved mailing lists started this angry poem, which was a rarity at that time (the angry poem, not the flame war). I wrote a letter to the mailing list, and pleaded, as a last request before I quit the list, to exercise what I believed were my three principles, and explained that with them, many things could have been avoided. Even though I wrote the letter expounding the principles, there was an anger in me. I felt useless, and most of all, I felt that my letter had been useless, and that sometimes, my three principles were useless. And then, I wrote this poem.



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