Post More Decay
Poetry Piątek #27
Antidote
to too-perfectness posts.
A half-eaten dove, a rotting fish.
The circle of life is
part of life.
This week was the first time one of my social media posts was flagged as potentially containing sensitive content. That is since I joined Twitter way back in 2008. The warning was made more specific: "This photo may contain graphic or violent content." Quite honestly, it did. It was a picture of a partially eaten dove. A photo of decay.
I started posted photos of decay because I think decay is part of our world. An important part that does not get enough attention and is severely undervalued. I think by looking away, we are guiding ourselves onto a wrong path. As I recently wrote in a post on Medium:
"Many of these over-produced, over-filtered Instagram posts, or advertisements, they are like those shadows in Plato's cave. Projections of what somebody perceives to be the ideal version of the world. But not the perfect world itself. Just the projections. No anomalies, no spots, no explosion of colour or aroma. Just a projection of a perception of an ideal version of a dreamt reality."
The danger of striving for unrealistic, imagined perfection, lies in that we start to view anything that does not fit into that image as a blemish. As something that is wrong with us, is ugly, makes us less valuable. That is nonsense. We need to see the beauty in what is in ourselves, not what other people tell us we should look or be like. Of course, you can imagine things you want to improve on yourself. As long as it comes from within, and is not dictated by unreal images projected on a cave wall by others. Be you, be proud of it. Love you. You are worth it and you bring value to this world.
Now tell me, what's the best thing about you?
Poetry Elsewhere
Over on Medium, Charlene Marron wrote another excellent poem in tritriplicata form: Winter’s Soliloquy.
Jorge Vallejo joined the Tripple Effect team on Medium with Urban Contrast. He also wrote a tritriplicata in Spanish: Canto Matutino.