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Open Poetry #34

What was lost

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

0 posted 2004-10-26 06:38 PM

Even though you feel a message can be wiped from a wall
Or hidden
By subterfuge
An eye watches
A mind recalls
And time
Achieves
It's aim
Amongst the cries
And does not forget
Yet we do not use it for personal gain
Or attack those
For colour, race, creed, religion
For when we do
We play their games
And revenge is also
And eye for eye
And also
Revenge is mine sayeth the Lord

On a wall somewhere someone will make a sign
Maybe it will takes us centuries
To know of that sign
And more centuries
To know of the language
And more centuries
To understand the words
And more centuries
To understand the though

Someone in a University in 500 years
Will tell us
Of what was lost

Dave

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2004-10-26 06:56 PM

Hindsight is always 20-20, huh? Such seems
to be the case within this poem. Thanx
Dave.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2004-10-26 07:52 PM

Too true, Dave.
We can lose it all, before being aware of it.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-10-27 05:36 AM

yes

*sigh*

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

4 posted 2004-10-27 07:15 AM

this reminded me of the years and years of conditioning mankind has undergone....in observing cultures, when you think about it...all throughout time...we've been told what to approve and what not to approve, what to believe and what not to believe or what will make us successful, or not.

Outstanding poem and as always a pleasure to read your thoughts...thank you

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

5 posted 2004-10-27 10:49 AM

Your wise eyes both see and foresee...

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