Your Speech

I am invincible
When I speak truth
I think
I am impervious
When I hear lies
I think
My ears ring at every single thing
That you said before I walked away,
Always two steps forwards and one back
On days like today,
When you don't want to listen
You just want to say
Spit words of senseless fear
Never coming near
Any shred of truth or hope
And make me out to be the dope
Stars in my eyes
I apologize for believing in something better
Believing that He can go and get her
Set her straight
Eliminate the tension
Call us out of apprehension
No sort of mild-intervention
But a hand in
On our backs
Filling in the voids of everything that lacks
Peace steady calm joy
And you,
You shattered all my trust in you
Just like you do every time
I leave heart battered and bruised from the crime
Feeling so confused
About how your words get away from you
And you say ugly things you don't mean to
So you tell me
So tell me
When is this gonna change
When is your attitude gonna rearrange
So your words fall in line with your doctrine
And you stop attacking me when I walk in
Cause as you see
I walk back out
I will not be subject to such doubt
Knowing how firm I stand
Not afraid to raise a hand
And say wait
Does that classify as hate?
And did you just state
That we are below the world
Locked underfoot
Swallowed in root
Of the fact that this place is cold?
See I dare to be bold
In a way different from what I'm told
Don't buy into all that crap
That says this life's a trap
Fight fierce with words that pierce souls
With overwhelming light
Not darkness
There's enough of that in this mess
We need not curse but bless
Raise the voice we were given
Not the one we've always known
Change the way we're living
So we kneel before the throne
Take on new eyes
To see through the lies
Hold out new hands
To show the truth in which stands
A new generation
Walking forth in expectation
Bringing love not condemnation

So ask yourself if what you preach
Is even present in your speech.

Prosetry on Catharsis

Catharsis
Is a get-it-off-my-chest,
Channel-my-energy-elsewhere-then-brush-yo-shouldas-off sort of thing.
And I always think it will make breathing easier,
It lets a little of the tension that builds in my muscles.
Psycho-physiology,
amazing and frustrating that my mind and my body are so interconnected,
but I guess that's sort of what makes the "heart";
both to feel but not with physicality,
to lead but not with the mind.

I don't succumb to it often,
- catharsis, not my heart, for that I'm a sucker -
but when I do,
It never fails to fail,
Leaving only the illusion of betterment.
But I guess an illusion feels better
than helplessness or stagnance.

Insider's Perspective: Silver Linings Playbook

Daring to go against the current, but here goes:

I [me, myself personally] wouldn't recommend Silver Linings Playbook. I thought the characters were 95% annoying, only 80% believable, and I was stressed 99% of the time; right up to the end. Maybe it's that for me, the subject matter is too familiar, and so even though they tried to make light of what it's like to live with someone who struggles with mental disorders, I don't want to re-live or laugh about that part of my life. Ever.

That's not to say it's a bad movie, (though I think it was not oscar-worthy,) or that the performances weren't good, I just wouldn't recommend it and didn't love it.

My two cents, for whatever it's worth, to whomever.