Monday 11 July 2016

Ruby writes a kind of hope

Stop being good. Start being you.
Forget what they say you should do:
the future’s what you want to do.
Stop being good. Start being you.

Stop thinking about what you need:
say what you want and you are free
to want it. This is liberty:
more by far and all that you will need.

Stop being ruled by must and should,
outdated notions of the good,
encouraged by the blue of blood:
they shouldn’t have it all. You should.

Stop doing what they tell you to.
They haven’t time to punish you.
With crisis as your cloak, pass through:
help yourself, if you want to.

Forget the old world and its rules,
its beggars and its monied fools,
the Master’s house, the Master’s tools:

it’s your world now. Your world, your rules. 

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