Move On

Me I… I hate ignorance so much
I’m prayin’ for people* that didn’t grow much.
Maybe our whole generation was raised wrong
I’m only responsible for me, I gotta’ stay strong.” – Joe Budden

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I swear that I sometimes feel like I was born as 30-year old man. I don’t belong in this era of bullshit music without a meaning, people who have opinions but only about bullshit matters, or people who are simply to afraid to stand for what they believe in. Or, and this is the worst of them all, people who are ignorant about what they ACTUALLY believe in and refuses to even research it. Racism. “I’m better than you because my parents have money”-mentalities.. etc. Yikes. This quote usually soothes me. If you are a standout, don’t try fit into the mould, remember that you are only responsible for yourself.

1Love.

The Tranquility of the Beak

©Alexander Berg Mattsson

A silent sea, and a burning sky
On my right there is a girl
Solemn, honest – with the most beautiful eyes
Not one, not two – but with three different dyes
Inside them there is stillness and mystery, but I can trace no lies
I am overcome with calmness, but yet the butterflies rise
A treasure of nature, and a creation without a price
(And) When I’m with her, I know only right
(And) When I’m with her, my future seems bright
And the tranquility of the beak,
repairs the soul that was once so weak
And the most beautiful eyes are watching,
as what was once broken cease to leak

©Alexander Berg Mattsson, 2012

A Goblin’s thoughts on religion

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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This clip & quote really says it all but let me first state:

1. I do not believe in mocking people over their religion, and I am not in the business of condemning the people who follows a religion.
2. I do not deny a higher existence, not at all, but I do not follow the God created by man either.
3. Any religion, or person, that justifies hatred and discriminates toward homosexuals, other races and people who does not lead life according to THEIR OPINION on how to live, is not a religion/person of my taste. We are all equal.
4. Finally, I do believe that both the Evolutionists and Believers are right. If “God” created the world, it also created Darwin, for a reason too.

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Basically, my poems have a lot of religious symbols and motifs, sometimes purposely, other times: not so intentionally. I am aware that I make references to a God and a belief that resembles Christianity, but that is because I was raised in a Christian nation and in a Christian society. However, I do not consider myself a Christian. I do not believe in, nor do I live, by the Bible’s codes. I do not plan to do so either. I will not accept a scripture that so openly discriminates on matters such as homosexuality, and I never will.

The higher existence I do believe in is above all of that. My “God” does not discriminate. My “God” does not set up a bunch of rules and “do’s and dont’s” and then punishes me for not doing exactly what I was taught. My “God” does not expect me to beg for forgiveness over something others considers a sin (pre-marital sex etc.). My “God” expects me to beg for forgiveness for not actively helping to feed the poor, or that I at times step over others to achieve my ambitions. My “God” condemns me for not fighting harder to create a society where ALL are actually equal, and religion is a major reason to why that is not achievable in my opinion.

I am not going to sit here and act like I know everything about religion, because I don’t. I’m “ignorant” to a lot of the scriptures and values and morals, I’m sure. And I reinstate: I am NOT in the business of condemning people whom calls themselves Protestants, Jewish or Shia etc. You follow it for a reason, and it is not my place to tell you that you’re wrong, because I have no authority to do that. No one does. That’s what I believe in.

For a long time now, I have been eager to find a symbol of MY faith, but there isn’t one that isn’t already connected to an established religion. I am at a loss of options to express my Agnostic-esque belief. This hurts me, and it also highlights where the world went wrong, when a person isn’t prepared to bear a cross, or any other religious symbols, due to (some) of the people who opt to use it as a scapegoat to discriminate, segregate and hate.

1love / Alexander.

A Warrior’s Open Letter To Death

Reblogged from WARRIOR POET WISDOM:

“Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.” ~The Grey

A Warrior’s Open Letter To Death

Dear Grim Reaper, I’d like to warn That I won’t run like most I will not flee, I will not hide This is not a proud boast…

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Absolutely fantastic poem. Read, enjoy and spread the Warrior Poet's words. I share his sentiment on death to the fullest, and this poem highlights his storytelling abilities.

Death is natural, immortality is not.

“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.” – Giovanni Falcone

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

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Now, can we stop with the “TPG, you’re obsessed with death”-talk? Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. All I know is that when I go, I’ll go willingly and if I can help it, in the place of someone I love. To fear death is to fear life, think about it. 

Scribblings on the Wall

My dearest angel, I hear you calling my name
The desperation in your voice is mesmerizing, but my reaction the same
Apathetic, heartless and always concealing my sincerest pain
Inside of me, there is emptiness, just a shallow plain
I live in the shadows, wallowing in the rain
I can break all the barriers, yet the hurt remains
A pain so wild, and vivid, one I cannot tame
A hollow human, I am an empty frame
My dearest angel, I hear you calling my name

In the chessboard of my own life, I am merely a pawn
You, my love, is the queen: and thy word is law
1000 years is not enough, to remove the scars from what I saw
That beautiful day, we spent on Beelzebub’s lawn
As the sky cried blood, and my heart was eaten raw
It was you who tore it out, using love’s most darkest claw
But in you, my love, I can see no flaw
In the chessboard of my own life, I am merely a pawn

My dearest angel, I hear you calling my name
In the darkest of nights, in the brightest of days
A lonesome bearer of light is kneeling, he becomes prey
Fighting his fate and ignoring the signs, he is slain
I wish to follow him into the afterlife, but I have forgotten how to pray
I have transformed into a monster, something only the Devil can claim
For years on about, I prosper under his reign
Until the day of reckoning, when I am freed of all pain
I lift the pistol and fire, to wash off all the stains
(Yes) My dearest angel, I hear you calling my name

©Alexander Berg Mattsson, 2012

Melancholy

“Melancholy is the most legitimate of all the poetical tenses – Edgar Allan Poe”

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I agree. I do so because of two reasons: 1. My best work seemed to have been created during a period when I was melancholic. 2. I prefer darker, grittier poetry over joyful “springish” poems that makes your heart sing, but that does not mean that I don’t appreciate happiness. Poe said, and wrote, some amazing things, and he is a source of inspiration for me.

More quotes by Poe.