"Five"

"Five"

Set five personalities in a blue glass bottle
Shake vigorously for half a second,
Smack the bottle against the nearest concrete wall,
And this is what you'll get.

One soul with a bruised head from hitting the blue glass,
One soul trying to find a band aid, and
Three souls arguing about whose fault
The collision was.

Regardless of the fact
That all five entities were inside the bottle,
Could not have been the ones to smash the bottle but
Are only the victims of the blue glass shards.

Please...haven't we
Enough splinters in our souls already?
That we needn't gash one another with whatever
Pieces of the bottle are still lying about?

Instead, should we not focus
On the rebuilding of the great village
Which lies within the bottle? Never
Should said village be destroyed over petty quarrel.

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I've a fairly good idea of what went on (at least, over the board) last night, even though I wasn't
around.. I was very, very saddened to wake up and find posts as such below after having been gone less
than a day. Guys and gals, aren't we friends here? In my book, 'least, you don't make personal
attacks directed towards anyone if you can help it (re: EO's post, which I did see before it was
removed), and DEFINITELY NOT towards your *friends*. (re: *Several* of the posts from last night). I
luff each and every one of you, and I don't want to sound high and mighty here, or condescending,
or anything like that... But I think that the whole thing was blown out of proportion by everyone
who participated in the multiple threads. From my point of view as a bystander, I just want to say
this: We all, whether we were involved last night or not, need to stand back and take a deep breathe
and look at the village around us and realize that everyone else here, whether we particularly like them or
their methods are PEOPLE JUST LIKE OURSELVES.* People make mistakes from time to time, and you cannot hold
that against em. And even if you do decide someone has done something terribly wrong that can't be left
unmentioned, at least have the RESPECT that god or whatever maker you believe in gave to you and don't
*attack* them. Take things diplomatically, and as Shiny I believe pointed out, use might FOR right,
not might makes right.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean this to be a full out rant, but it turned out that way. I'm really upset by
this, more because I had a strange ideal that as villagers we didn't get into sessions of petty bickering,
or that if we did, we were able to let it die before it morphed into anything huge. I'm sorry also cuz
I realize that this post is furthering the discussion and therefore counts as Not Letting It Die.
I'm not sorry, however, for having my opinion here, because I think that a) I posted in a way so as
to not overly offend people, and b)Opinions are important.. even negative ones, so long as they're
presented in a non-aggressive manner.
*weak hugs* =( Luff ya'll.