My Last Quest English Blog

Young, naive and full of hope,

I couldn't seem to dare

To accept the sad, true truth;

Our world’s full of despair.

Always driven by our fear

We can’t seem to maintain

The justice that we think we’ve found

Instead, we just cause pain.

We burrow deep inside ourselves

Too scared to face the light

It’s easier to just retreat

Than it is to do what’s right.

We push our problems so far down

That we never take a turn

To talk about what’s going on

And so we slowly burn.

Yet worse; we turn against ourselves

We keep our fires ignited

When will we ever understand?

We stand stronger united.

Always on the brink of destruction

We just all carry different baggage

We’ve created “civilization”

To put a mask over the savage.

We don't try to change our nature

We just suppress and call it change

And the ones that call us out

Are the ones we call insane.

The people who stand up, stand out

Are considered out of place

But even when different is right

We claim it’s a disgrace.

In this messed up, desperate world

It’s hard to do what’s right

It’s easier to stay ignorant

But we need to see the light.

It's hard to let go of what we believe

In order to truly know

But sometimes to fully grasp the truth

You first have to get go.

Includes ideas from: The Lady and the Tiger, The Republic Book I, The Allegory of the Cave/The Republic Book VII, City With a Fever/The Republic Book II, Washington’s Adress, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, Things Fall Apart, Belief vs. Understanding/The Republic Book VI (?)