Proof

Love and civilization...

turbulent love

claws that grasp

frail living heart

converted into machine

locked in a cage

 

you ask for proof

why is a living beating heart

better than a manufactured one?

 

I don't need your questions

theories

science

religion

 

my answer

is to run far away

far from your wrath

 

I taste freedom

feel the ground

on my bare feet

touch the sky

flee to sacred places

 

perception

is freedom

I won't play your game

or live by your rules

I trust my senses

 

I'll take my frail heart

into the wilderness

grow powerful

return to your paved over land

consume your civilization made of madness

I will bring back the wildness

you tried to control

Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Love this cause this certainly is how I feel... I don't need an organized religion to tell me how to love God and I don't need "society" to tell me what to like.

perception
is freedom
I won't play your game
or live by your rules
I trust my senses

Awesome verse.

[Jaweena...Eileen Quinta..]

"I'll take my frail heart
into the wilderness
grow powerful
return to your paved over land
consume your civilization made of madness
I will bring back the wildness
you tried to control"
I totally understand this....maybe this will help me move past it. You inspire me.

[Jaweena...Eileen Quinta..]

This hit me to my core.
How often I have felt these same feelings and have tried to express it and can't, because it so often brings up rage, bitterness and DRAINS my soul. I feel like at crucial times when fighting for Human Rights I have not been able to go to the most painful place. Because of how completely illogical prejudice, injustice, bigotry, dehumanization of whole cultures is. It is inhumane! I am speaking from the Native American perspective. The colonizing of the United States took everything we had, our lands, language, culture and way of life. They used the most brutal strategies of warfare to defeat our people and we can't even TALK about it, or you are labeled a "militant" or "unamerican"! All the treaties that our ancestors died fighting for are now being taken back! I am right now fighting to keep federal monies for Indian Education that is in jeapardy of being taken away! The US promised education and healthcare for future genereations.
"Indian Education Programs – Title VII – exist not because of race or ethnicity. They are based on the trust relationship of Tribal nations with the U. S. federal government. According to the National Indian Education Association, it summarizes the development of this relationship: “In exchange for Indian land and trade concessions, the U.S. assumed a protective role that developed into a ‘trust relationship.’ Trust is generally defined as ‘the unique legal and moral duty of the United States to assist Indians in the protection of their property and rights.’ Trust has as its primary purpose the continued survival of Indian tribes and their governments. The trust relationship existing between the federal government and Indian tribes governs that special, unique relationship between the United States government and Indian nations.” For the complete summary, see http://www.niea.org/history/educationhistory.php.

Jeez....let it all out Jaweena hahaha...I am going NATIVE on you aaaye.

[Eagle Cruagh]

It seems that lovers/mates should be able to
extend the freedom to their lovers that they enjoy.
To put this differently, no one should be made to feel
like a posession. Each should respect the freedom of
the other. Well, you knew that already, didn`t you ?
I guess the problem exposed in your poem is, you were
trapped with someone who did not respect your rights
and freedom.
Sorry that you went through that, but I think most men
must be enlightened by now---- try again.
This was a nice story, poem that brought a problem to
the attention of your readers.
Thank you,
----- Eagle Cruagh

[Cecelia]

perception
is freedom
I won't play your game
or live by your rules
I trust my senses

There is nothing I could possibly add in a review other than it is a marvelous work.

[ScaryTrees]

i have a feeling many native americans feel/felt the same
imho we will never have a perfect society until we change ourselves in a drastic definitive way
until then we will grow and fester until the earth strikes back and we diminish for a time
maybe next time we will figure it out

thanks for the thought provoking read

[Hiroko]

While I was reading your poem I felt like I was reading words my heart had written 'cause it describes so perfectly my own thoughts and emotions! I totally agree- I don't need to follow the rules that society has laid down because most of them don't make sense. Killing a human is murder but killing a mosquito isn't- but doesn't a mosquito have life too? So how do we know whats right and whats wrong, and how can we take someone else's word for it?

[Christian Adriaensen]

A stunning poem,
with a powerful message.

[Ruth]

Oh yes, stunning! To claim back the heart and know it never really has to be controlled is a great realisation!
DD, I must apologise love for not being able to read you on here as much, but know I admire your art and do read when I can lol
Hugs love
xx

[Tina Kline]

Being yourself, wild and free, not what society tries to force you to be, being free to know who you are and to be who you are. This poem speaks of freedom on many different levels, people, nature and the Earth itself. I enjoyed this.

[wafa]

Great really awsome, the good words in the good place, i liked the strengh " i will bring back the wildness you tried to control"

after reading i just cheer " Viva freedom, viva wildness, viva craziness, viva natural and real happiness"