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.

[Sunflower/Sara Kendrick]

Interesting thoughts penned...I especially like the last two lines..I am glad that I chose this one to read this afternoon..Thanks for the kind review of my work..I was trying to learn how to copy a picture or words from one place and move to another..I will probably have to do it a hundred times to get the total understanding of how to do that..Sunflower

[Poeticadia]

With progress & civilisation we lose our abilitly to trust our senses... this poem holds on to the natural instincts we have been given and asserts their power and significance. Vibrant, determined and concise... with a very eloquent and meaningful ending.

[Bill Grimke-Drayton]

The person who wrote these words is not content with glib answers to life's fundamental question - why are we here? You won't be fitted into the mould of conformity. There is certainly a note of anger born out of the frustration of being misunderstood. However, there is also a determination to live out life with the precept: To thyself be true! The wilderness is a place where you can be quiet and reflect on the issues of the past - issues of hurt and grief. But the wilderness is also a place of healing - where you gain strength, which you didn't know beforehand you had. A moral, spiritual, psychological as well as physical strength. Check out my collection of poetry - FREEDOM RECLAIMED - on http://www.augustabooks.co.uk. Also my blog - http://thegrimkedraytonnotes.blogspot.com. I also have my own website - http://www.grimke.co.uk. Interested in purchasing copies of my collection - book and / or CD / and / or downloads for MP3 players. Go to the augustabooks website. I do have a PayPal account.

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

DD your poems always move me ... this is beautiful though makes me wonder.
A poem of courage and strength and mind set.
Nature can and does heal , but you know this better than I.

Chloe

[emmajoy]

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

Those are such precious thoughts .. they scatter the very spirit of a human body who walks a straight path but travels her own route, being best she can and better.

Tho' i was reared with certain beliefs, the inner something tells me to at least live a few feet up into my own thinking, plus my utter love for the natural world shows me the ever-present power it holds and, more often than not, its gender spirituality.

I'm cheering at your final words, ' will bring back the wildness ~ you tried to control'. Your words are truly inspiring and very lovely.

[An owl on the moon]

Such a courage to stand on your own... to face the world and grace the earth with your presence... yearning for life and wholeness.. all that is good and that has been reduced by so many to mere cliche. This is a song I hope more people will sing.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Faltered and ready. Risky emotion but flowed beautifully, imagery is jumping right off the screen to elude the reader, well done..

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

"You can't just let wildlife run wild". Alaska Republican Representative Don Young.

Oh yes DD, I love the whole thing, the last two lines a pointed punctuation.

Wonderful!
Gracias.

[Robin]

That is the spirit ...

[Ladysue]

absolutely loved this...'I'll take my frail heart into the wilderness' oh yes indeed...no place like being in nature...awesome...

I taste freedom
feel the ground
on my bare feet
touch the sky
flee to sacred places