What Matters Anymore? - 1. What Matters Anymore?

I don't know.

What does matter? Mostly people seem self centered and egotistical, is that what we as a species have become? Or is that what we always were?

I envy those who can a) write poetry - I can't I am too literal and b ) those who are good at self reflection - I avoid it for fear of what I will find. Thanks for sharing your 'little contribution' I thought it quite well done.

That was quite dark. It highlights a lot of sadness, a lot of fear and bleakness and darkness.

What does it matter? it matters because is matters. The big picture is bleak but if we can all see the little picture and make it better then the big picture changes.

Where is the hope? Right here.

I like the questions you posed, made me think a lot. Thank you for sharing. In case it wasn't clear, I really like this

A very dark piece.

In my world, I have to hope, and things do matter.

We all have problems of some sort I guess. A lot of feeling in this, well done : )

Quite a dark and confused piece! It reads beautiful too.

- I mean, why hope anyway?

- Coz that's the only thing that'll keep me hanging on.

Somehow I think this is stating how bad things can be, only to have the reader rebuke this and find his own self stepping up and forward again after whatever there is, if it is only to give the finger.

Interesting.

I'm shite at poetry, and shite at understanding it too, so I kinda like it when I come across something I can relate to.

The simple fact of the matter is that nothing matters. Truly. Importance is only a feature of existence. And when we die ...

On the other hand, being as we are, we need to have reason to continue to be, so the idea of mattering slips down a level to our immediate cisrcumstances and how we can affect the lives around us. And if we didn't do that, we'd go back a paragraph nd there's no forward pathway there.

Mattering is what you make it. The trick is not to be deflected by the hateful idiots in the world who like nothing better than to be brutal and self centred. The trick is to be you, and to be useful to others.

And it seems to me that you are very good at that, sir. And that's all that matters.

As Bugeye kinda inferred, reading this is a great kick in the ass to realise that there is another side to the dark.

Thank you.

Pose the hardest question of all.....

Does life not matter. Or is it love? Shall we consider friendship, or learning, or family?

There is much to be said for an enquiring mind, but can't help but wonder if that was the reason behind why you ask?

Interesting piece.