A Carving Knife

 

 

 

 

Carrying a blade at the hip,

A tool sometimes for the mind,

In a sporting culture, like the U.S.,

Where Shin says a gun is more than a gun,

Is where it becomes a tool of the arts,

The way Shin takes down a mallard,

The aim, the steadiness of the hands,

Such is the stuff of dealing with life's tunes,

Same thing with the mind, no different.

Take a mighty hunter, who's killed a mammmoth,

Then tell him something he doesn't know,

And then you realize he is not so mighty.

So, the little things, keep the blade sharp,

The mind after all is also a manly sport.

 

 

 

~  Bidayah  ~

Reviews

[Kainan Corrales]

very interesting. i like the parallel between the minds and the blade. definitely something that has more to say the second and third time that you read through it. this profile is interesting. i'm going to be reading more of it

[Marie]

Guns and knives are not enough to give life meaning.