Untitled - July 30, 2002

It's the road to perdition
when you try to become too much.

Acceptance is not the final cost
but the last resort these days.

There is no pleasing the waves
that continually surge forward,
there is no relent against
the torrent of disdain
that rolls off
time after time.

Individuality within the collective,
acceptance but with reluctance,
what is worth made of,
but the opinions of others,
what is the difference
between existence
and living
when everything passes
in a blur.