Why Not

I write this piece in protest

to those who suggest that
I tune into local programming
and live a life that's considered
routine and formal

Worship a manufactured god

Bleed me  through taxes
retire me at sixty something
and sit back and wait to die
is what they claim as being normal

Nah baby no yellow brick road for me cause
I'm steppin off into the forbidden forest
and I'm gonna spark and blaze my own trail

Illuminate my own path with the fire of
my uncanny desires which pour from a place
I store deep down within my own wholly grail

Roaming through the wildness of thought
and tip toeing on the edge of the
unexpected always keeping my
awareness open to a random universe

Pursuing altered states while I meditate
with my mind clicking from channel to
infinite channel with no numbers to tell
me what came last or what came first
or when the world shall end

If I sound like Charlie Brown's teacher
to you it's only because I'm speaking
in braille so pardon me if you can't feel
the vibe or ride my flow

This message is intended for the kindred
spirits that are in tune to hear it
for these brothers and sisters
come from the same abstract tribe

So hop on the back of my untamed verbs
and hold tight while my verses buck like
a bull for sixty seconds against this
onslaught of conformity

As the brainwashed are put in spin cycle
and hung out to dry over that pond of
purgatory with their senses numb to
Creation's enormity

Unaware or without a care that the
thought police are performing a global
mental vasectomy throwing the
collective into one grand melting pot

Because they live in perpetual fear
of the two words that will free anyone
who dare to invoke and instill them
into their souls and these words are
?Why Not?

Why not take that risk and walk that line
on the boarder of genius and insanity
and unlock the mysteries that lay hidden
somewhere in between

I mean if we are only using ten percent
of our brains then that can only mean
ninety percent of our universe remains
untapped and unseen

So that makes ninety percent of the lives
we live now pure bullshit
I know you can feel it
that's why I say here and now
F**k the norm!

As I embrace that brainstorm becoming
a cosmic surfer on the rings of Saturn
and bearing witness to the beginning of
my new astral shape as it takes form

Forming new thoughts that will scratch
the surface of my consciousness with
better questions and peel back the veil
of my true memories

Yeah man no more yellow brick road for me
I gotta spark and blaze cause I'm
sick and tired of listening to this man
go on and on about his stories

By Samantha Campbell

Author's Note

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
~ Sir Cecil Beaton

poem was inspired in part by the quote above and the main pic please be sure to see full view thanks

title changed but still not happy with it lol

Reviews

[joshua deathdealer]

does not contain JW118, CHS23, GW124 or any other illegal substances..xx

[ShaneBerry]

this had a solid and invincible flow! nothing could stop it once it started!! i am thoroughly impressed! this is amazing! this could easily be read very well at a poetry reading, and with a fat beat behind the words this could be a smooth elegant rap! no joke at all! great great great great! no complaints about this at all!
thank you VERY much for shareing!

[Coyote Poetry]

The slaves of the ordinary make us sad and disappointed. Sometime we can get locked in and must find some kind of freedom. Even if it is words and dreams we need to escape to freedom and great journey. I like the poem. Open the door to a large conversation. I tell the young people. Travel and test life before it is too late. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Irfan Bashir Shah]

DABAAV! The word means GRRREAAATT!
3rd and 4th stanza were the best in my reckoning.
Nicely done with the words.
Do i need say more? Um already feeling the heat.

[Lily Mae]

"I'm steppin off into the forbidden forest
and I'm gonna spark and blaze my own trail"

My son graduates this spring..and I'm getting my gypsy shoes on and blazing a new life and a new trail.. Your on fire girl.. Love this..xo

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

CJXSD-DJ68S-L89AM