What are we searching for – where does our yearning lie?
I am not quite sure, I have the feeling I am destined for something bigger than I... (I know THIS - what I am becoming). I don’t intentionally provoke immorality... But why then, do I welcome it with open arms? Why do I enjoy it so? Why…, (What I have desired for so long) -A place I could feel safe, call home is anything ‘but’…
In life, there comes a time when we must ‘stand and recognize’!
I’d like to think I’ve earned this right, paid my dues if you will... I have managed to hold my own, infusing with-in - what is right and wrong... I know who I was and what I am becoming... Are others exempt?
Put your hands together as you look to the sky...
For years gone-by, more than I would like to remember ‘I have done just this’… Where have YOU been? Why do I feel YOU have forsaken me like the rest? I have believed in you when others have not. Have I been ‘dismissed’?
Auspicious signs will then reveal,
Hmm~… this indeed, they do. Beware though… not everything appears to be an open book.
Life is ambiguous… even-handed it is not!
Open to interpretation – how true is this! No apparent objective – it depends on how you view life. Unfair and cruel – THIS I am all too familiar with.
Don’t inspire with apprehension,
I do not have the luxury of encouraging fearful expectations.
We might have one – forcing its threshold...
I’ve had the drive to push forward for so long. Why now… am I giving in, giving up this fight? True is this - boundaries are only as we imagine them.
- Love and compassion a vital quality
Interesting traits… do they really exist?
Purity and Innocence, a distinguishing feature...
Forsaken me - these have done.
Life has a path ‘to each its own’.
To claim it as mine… this I do not choose.
Ours dreams lose their way, To say I’ve had them once – I guess in ‘goals’ I did.
Legacies ‘somewhere’ have become obscured...
Does such a word or belief still exist today?
For this is the 20th Century - People are not here for their names to stay...?
I have to say that I agree with Ms. Belsito after reading this. Indeed you have put together a very imaginative piece. I think the object seems to be more thought provoking that spontanous agreement of the masses. There are certainly parts that we can all debate upon and I think by writing this you have increased awareness of where we are all heading or at least could be.
I agree with Murren, this is a very intellectual piece, and to me it reads more like a statement or affirmation instead of a poem. Either way, great work!
BJH
This was such an interesting write. I had to read it a couple of times, not that its a bad thing. I just loved reading it in a couple of different ways. Great format you used here, different and very original to say the least.
wow, you wrote a haunting piece. Deep and provoking us to think and be honest with ourselves. I find it great that you write such a stuff. Always picking up an interesting topic, dear Tom. Send that link, then I evocate.
A very different structure from your usual work, which made it a nice change. I liked the start. Don't we all like to be heard, to be remembered. It reminded me of a line from an Eels song, "And no one will know my name until it's on a stone."
One tiny niggle, is this not the 21st Century?