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Open Poetry #7

As the World Passes By

Jana Tovey
Member

since 2000-05-30

Posts 257
USA

0 posted 2000-06-02 07:12 PM

I see the worth in all that you deny,
but I can not give my knowledge to you
if you are not willing to take it
and apply it to the wildness
that will surround you...one day.

Time is not a token that we can cash in...
it is a here-then-gone thing
and you are not for the here and now,
but rather look more at what is behind you
and at what you don’t have.

I sense a shallowness in you that can’t be deepened
by the nagging and prodding that I might apply,
you would simply turn away and deny
that my words had any meaning
or that you had even heard them at all.

So when next you pass by me, look away
for I will not acknowledge that which is vague
(until it divines which way the wind's blowing),
nor will I pretend that I have not noticed you
standing still as the world passes you by.

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2000-06-02 07:22 PM

Jana,

I hope they see and realize all that they are missing by just standing on the sidelines while life goes flying by. That is so sad to hear. Very touching writing!!

Lone Wolf

Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end.
--Michael W. Smith

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