Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Some Poetry yo!

The Cerebrum’s Manifesto Part I: The Glorification

this is a little piece about the brain. I just thought of like a brain standing on a soap box talking about the importance of the mind and taking care of it, yelling to every passerby whether he or she chooses to listen or not. Anyway, here it goes:

Stu-dents

Contentment in society does not come with a lack of sobriety

The brain is your microcosm

You must care for it, plant its seeds, water its earth

You must reflect in its sadness and rejoice in its mirth

DO NOT succumb to a false sense of perfection

For a perfect man has no vision, no sense of progression

The brain is your microcosm

The stu-dent is at his most dense when he believes his mind is free

Released from inhibitions, yet engulfed by certainty

Confidence leads to ignorance. Complements become immigrants

That pass through the mind’s borders, fueling self-satisfaction and belligerence

The brain is your microcosm

It has always been your workspace

Where you sketch out the emotions that find color on your face

The process always seems to be, well, more or less mechanical

But it all depends on which apparatus is feeling more tyrannical

And while your emotions and your body fight for all of that control

Just know that you’re truly the one who runs this puppet show

For the brain is YOUR microcosm

And thought can only be led astray

When you choose to not tend to the mind

and let it waste away.