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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Inspirational
- Subject: Poems & Songs
- Published: 07/12/2024
Because why a group?
Born 1999, M, from Boston, United StatesAs people we scatter,
As people we vary,
Across our ball, across our kind.
Yet we scatter and vary in groups.
And so I ask why?
Can packs not be made of one?
Rather than taking in each wolf?
Does every star have to be named?
Placed in constellations they have no relation to.
I ask, will all ants be crushed, if they were to stray from their hills?
And yet.
Those stars burn brighter, with or without their clusters.
And yet these roses flourish, so far from their bushes.
And yet this open fire catches. Uncontained and unconstrained.
My answer is there, but never really made
Because unlike stars and much like wolves:
We all vary and we scatter, but if from our cliques, we are shamed.
Why?
Because why a group?(Neccesity)
As people we scatter,
As people we vary,
Across our ball, across our kind.
Yet we scatter and vary in groups.
And so I ask why?
Can packs not be made of one?
Rather than taking in each wolf?
Does every star have to be named?
Placed in constellations they have no relation to.
I ask, will all ants be crushed, if they were to stray from their hills?
And yet.
Those stars burn brighter, with or without their clusters.
And yet these roses flourish, so far from their bushes.
And yet this open fire catches. Uncontained and unconstrained.
My answer is there, but never really made
Because unlike stars and much like wolves:
We all vary and we scatter, but if from our cliques, we are shamed.
Why?
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Denise Arnault
07/19/2024It is clear that a lot of thought went into your poem. I confess that I only marginally understand them myself. I do believe that humans are basically a socially oriented species. The need to be with others is hard wired into our beings, it seems. I hope you decide to give it a try again.
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Denise Arnault
07/20/2024Thanks for the clarification, Neccesity. I knew I was not understanding it correctly!
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Neccesity
07/20/2024Thank you for your input! My intention was to express this same inherent need to be in groups and ‘packs’ but specifically to question and criticise why we as the human race constrain ourselves to such a restrictive social construct, one that inhibits individualism and the power in thriving so far from home and the comfort of others. One that ‘shames’ those who try to leave such groups and retains a rhetoric that if they do, they will be ‘crushed’ under the weight of being alone, because individualism, in many societies, is just ‘selfishness’ and unattainable, because what are we without our cliques and the people that surround us? For a lot of people, the answer to that is nothing.
I understand my poem doesn’t address the good points of communities and homes and the cultures that are built through it, but I personally think the biased view adds to its overall message however it can also come off as ignorant to the necessity that is those same communities and I take your feedback in good faith.
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