How to handle catastrophes
Laughing through your tears
there is a certain cheerfulness in hopelessness
as if the ultimate defeat was after all a victory
although it cost us everything
and we are wearied out in all our energy
completely, as if now at this fulfilment
battle was about to start.
The tears will do no good,
the sorrows and catastrophes are to be laughed at,
and the problems start now as they have been solved.
This mess is difficult to be helped out from,
and it seems the only thing that we could do
is making it still worse,
which always is a possibility and a temptation.
Better then to go to sleep, forget it all,
get drunk and let the world resolve itself
with all its troubles, which is no concern of ours,
and postpone awakening to this mad nightmare
called reality as long as possible.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-02-08 at 19:13
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