Empty Rhetoric
One more transition;
A moment to reflect,
a moment to collect all the ongoing
travesties we live in earnest.
Never again to be perceived as the
conscience; now to be played out
by the ignorant.
Not that ignorance can’t be healed;
you can’t heal the weary, while
misunderstanding the prejudice.
A rolling stone will lose no mass
rolling along it’s padded course.
The scenery will, however change
wildly around it, but it is seemingly
controlled.
A funnel’s effect- a collection of all
that is on top feeding to the bottom
the quickest way out, while what’s
necessary is steadily being replaced
by what’s stationary, or stagnant.
“All in due time.”
Father time seems to echo from
a not too distant future, this time
which feels like an utterly
ridiculous test of the signals we’ve
received.
All our emotions seem in check:
desires, needs, and expectations,
yet it’s the patience I’ve found I’m
collecting none of.
Ooooh, how I wish anyone could
value the souls locked within two bars.
On a page as puresque as the place
all thought seems to stem from.
My words now seem like graffiti.
I now know it’s the intense fervor of
their release that makes them a
masterpiece.
In a theater of disjoint images,
disconnected freedoms, it’s become
the will of my nature. A nature
uncovered only if you criticize
yourself hard enough to find it.
A soul can never be trapped. When
you’ve got a pen and this here road
map.
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