Red and Blue

If a man from matrix gave you two choice:
One you know and love, filled with reality
Or born into reborn into a world you don't;
Everything goes your way there. Get the money,
The women (or men), the things you want,
And whatever you desire. You don't worry
About god or wars or cruelty or poverty
Because everyone's satisfied and at peace.
Your thought controls the world to be
The way it must operate and your wish
Is the driving force of this other world.

Which would you live in? The former or latter?
For me, with no doubt be the former.
The latter is an imaginative hell on earth.
A man can't feel joy unless he has learned of pain.
No satisfaction of food comes without hunger.
A sense of achievement is robbed without work.
Success feels nowhere good if you have never failed.
It'd be like watching your favourite team win
But already knowing the future they'd win.
Everything would go the way you imagine it,
But won't that be the ultimate boredom?
You'd feel smug and brag to your friends,
But you already know how they'll respond.

Your lover will just do what you imagine there:
Ever predictable, not outside of what you want,
Only feels pain or jealousy when you dictate it,
Monotony rules supreme. Insanity soon follows.
What good for is peace, the abstract intangible,
Without knowing the atrocities of warfare?
What good for is crimelessness, if everything
Is already given to you for free and limitless
If a thief stole your Ferrarri, you'd hate him,
Only because you worked blood and tears for it.
If you can get another one instantly, why hate?
Ultimate monotony, everything's cookie cutter.
In the end, you'd imagine for the other world.
But that's the only thing you won't get back.

I toil, strive, and work. In the world of reality,
I sometimes win, but usually lose out more.
When I gamble, I don't beat the house odds.
Hunger I can feel and poverty I've seen,
Aftermath of war and crimes on the news,
Pain of rejections and loves that never fruited,
All makes my success worthwhile and joyful.
Those random windfall make for surprise,
A bite after a full week's fast is heavenly
Peace is loved after seeing instability and pain,
Appreciate little conveniences in life to full.
This is the world I know and love. A villain.
When you beat it, you just gotta love it.


-Wren