Respect Waste! Date: Sunday, 1st September 2002 @ 07:49:12 AM AEST Topic: Sad Poetry Contributed By: Maha Stand up and rise! For fake beauty, perishing fame, and sheer waste. Stand up and be wise, For masked faces, spreading vice, and vulgar taste. Stand up and rise! For affectionless ties and undeserved money. Stand up and be wise! For everything you believed absurd and funny. Stand up and rise, my friend, And learn to appreciate cheap power. Cheer for vanity and join the trend. Accept hollowness as the star of the hour. Forget about values, and just learn to hail, For superficiality, immorality, and triviality. Otherwise, you’ll surely and ironically fail To be part of the world’s prevailing artificiality. Hope for catching up with the mad race, Respect the world of the blind minds, Because this world, my dear, is no place For decent, sober, and thinking minds! This poem is Copyright © Maha Important note: ALL POETRY ON THIS SITE IS COPYRIGHT. If you wish to use any poem for any purpose, please either EMAIL Mick from the sites feedback form, or go to the AUTHOR'S site and EMAIL the author for permission. If you Email Mick for permission on any poem that is not his personal works, he will endeavor to contact the author on your behalf. This poem comes from Your Poetry Dot Com https://www.your-poetry.com/ The URL for this poem is: https://www.your-poetry.com/route.php?page=poetry/PoemDetail&story_id=3139