Take and Tell

What is our place amongst the visible universe? What is our place in the beyond? Billions of individuals; one common experiance of life.

Taste of sweet escape and colored haze,

But not to take from on the mind’s wake-

Tames the job in life’s jested joke;

That stained-glass window that choirboys broke.

The church bells ring.

But, the birds don’t sing.

And the preachers still preach,

Though there isn’t a ghost in the seat.

But even if it is a lie,

Where lovers try and dreamers die.

And, to survive by nightmares due-

Upon the eve of a waning moon

Perhaps that’s all there is.

              -A void of absence? Nothing more?

Perhaps there’s things beyond.

                        -Then explain the famine, greed, and war.

An endless torment,

a mental battle.

Perjury in all its form.

But... Words of Wisdom,

told to me,

By a man

who traveled land and sea:

“Think of it as not life in hell,

But just a place for take and tell.”