Optimist Overlord

Fight the good fight.
Don't give the bastards an inch.

Laugh in the face of anger
and allow that anger to burn itself to ruin.

There are diamonds in the coals
of anger immolated by fierce happiness.

The smile that cuts like a knife.
The impenetrable inner peace that comes from
watching someone kill themselves with their own frustration.

They have no more toys to turn their anger on.
So they turn on their own psyches.
Like an injured ant that stings itself into oblivion.
Twitching and twisting in a dance of insistent self-destruction.

Cast off the stinger with the shield of a shining open heart.
Rays of truth that shine the poison away.
The inner roar that seizes the day.

And makes all that is......
yours.