Maiden next door

I want you, you know, and I always have.

You’ve lived next door all our lives and we go to the same block parties though we’ve never met. I’ve seen you, and you’ve seen me, and I can see what you think in your eyes you when look upon me with such disdain.

“There is that ruffian, always with the troublemakers, with the drug dealers, with the gangsters, with the outcasts. I’ve seen him in the light, and he could be so much more! If only he would learn to give up those crude ways and become one of us.”

Fair maiden, you judge us all equal in your heart, and have never leaned to one side or the other, which is why you’ve never found me worthy.

I don’t know what to tell you other than what is good for you is bad for me, and that side of the line has been worse than anything could ever possibly be, so I do not go there and I prefer whatever else there is. That is not the way it should be, but that’s the way it is. Were the world not corrupt, were men honest, were law enforcement good, things would be different. I am a man of integrity, and I cannot abide a law that is corrupt, so I abide without the law as a law unto myself. That is why I go where I do and why I am the side I am on.

The way you look at me is how I look at you. That maiden is so unhappy, so confused, so lost, if only she would realize the truth that is as plain as day. She would be so much happier if she realized that how she sees men like me as false, is how the men she chooses to be with are false. There is one truth, and it is not decided by what is written or popular. It is what is best, and that is the truth I keep.

So, look for a minute at the evil corners of their mouths, the way they smile like demons, cannibals, and fiends. Think of the world they provide at the expense of so many others. That is why you will never be happy there, never find peace, never be satisfied, and never secure. They buy you trinkets and false security with evil and it only endangers you more.

When you soared up to the heavens, did you forget to finish school? Did you never learn the life you inherited as not only the hope of those behind us, but why it is the hope? You defile that reason why by living under the knife, and I reject you as long as you think violence will give you what you want.

I couldn’t care less what you think about me, because as long as you remain tolerant of corruption, as a slave to evil, and with no respect for human life, you are nothing to me, just an animal undeserving of a human being. When you die, you will lose your life and descend back into the beast you chose to live as.

I cannot help you if you won’t help yourself. Pick up a book. Learn what happened and why. Consider what has been passed on through art and literature along the way for the very reason you are rejecting by choosing to cut men before they can stand.