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define reality

April 23, 2013
By devan1223 BRONZE, Desert Hot Springs, California
devan1223 BRONZE, Desert Hot Springs, California
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Favorite Quote:
"nothing gold can stay"


Guys I need some help.

how do you define reality?

Is it our brain waves ricocheting of our spinal cords,

is that your actuality?

Is it what you see every day,

what you can push out of the way.

What about dreams what is that?

What if reality is no different then the cat in the hat.

What is reality is that happening now?

Can you prove it to me?

You can?

how?

because Reality is in the eye of the beholder.

and my conception of reality may change as I get older.

Who are to say what is real and what is fake.

To be honest, I probably won't listen anyway.

maybe in mine I can control times.

Maybe in your poems don't rhyme.

Maybe in yours dragons exist!

Maybe in mine kids don't cut there wrist.

You probabley think this poems odd,

but please continue to smile and nod.

What about stars there in reality?

How do you explain the construction of the galaxy?

Or black holes where do they go?

this is where you say, you don't know.

because reality like the rest are made up words.

Just so we could call it the sky or the birds.

no one really knows what reality is,

It could be sound waves gamarays or kids.

Or it could be all of the above

just as long as you sprinkle a little bit of love.

All I could really tell you about is my reality.

All I can define is my actuality.

maybe the schizophrenics have it right.

Maybe there really is a giant robot fight.

maybe there's just something we missed,

maybe reality doesn't even exist.


The author's comments:
this poem is just about a question that has always boggled my mind! so i hope you read it and wonder about your reality. stay gold~

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on May. 24 2013 at 8:19 pm
StarGazer9 GOLD, Marana, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

I enjoyed reading this, good job :)

on May. 2 2013 at 12:27 pm
Dancer26 SILVER, Concord, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
- Al Bernstein

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite."
-George Bancroft

I really liked it, you did a good job. Few spelling mistakes but its okay. Please check out my work!

sarah98 BRONZE said...
on Apr. 29 2013 at 3:34 pm
sarah98 BRONZE, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
It is better to write for yourself and have no audience than write for your audience and have no self.

pretty good! i had a hard time following the rhtyhm though

on Apr. 29 2013 at 1:51 am
devan1223 BRONZE, Desert Hot Springs, California
2 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"nothing gold can stay"

thanks! its funny because when i read my poems in my mind i add words to fix the rhyme and then forget to actually write them down lmao!! but thanks for the opinon! and couldent stop if i wanted to (:

on Apr. 29 2013 at 1:47 am
LiraDaeris PLATINUM, Tucson, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

What is this "Reality" you speak of? lol jk. IDK if it's on purpose or not, but you have a few misspellings in here. And a few grammatical mistakes. If you want to take your point a step further, then you could utilize this. On an ideological point, I understand where you are coming from, but I must disagree. If I take an ink blot picture and place it in the center of a circle of people, then they are going to come up with different answers of what it is, but there is still an ink blot picture in the center of a circle of people. There is a reality, and, though we come up with different ideas of what it is and different opinions of it, there is still a reality that we are reacting to. I could even say that this poem doesn't exist, but you know you wrote it and it's in the Teen Ink system at a specific place and time. Even though someone in the jungles of Africa doesn't know this exists doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. We can be mistaken since we do not know everything, but if we're wrong, that is only because there is a right. I'd like to thank you for putting your thoughts out there, and for being respectful in your viewpoint. The way you composed it is nice, save for a couple kinks in the rhythm, but that's nothing too major. Some of your images stuck well, and you explained your thought process clearly. Keep on writing! And keep on thinking :)