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0 posted 2001-03-15 10:26 PM


Someone, Anyone
By: Noah Eaton
3/15/01

Can someone, anyone please tell me
Why our world is so full of misery
Nature being raped over and over and over again
Oil fields polluting the oceans until all resources come to an end

Can someone, anyone please tell me
Why all love seems so bittersweet
Everyone going at any length to make love to the first person they lay eyes upon
Using on-line dating services, only to see broken hearts sprout up everywhere, all faith being gone

While there be remnants of purity scattered about this small world
The media is like the emperor of a global feudal age, adulterating young boys and girls
True happiness and love out of youths reach all the time, all so close but always inching away
An archetype of Tantalus playing harm on everyone, deceiving our eyes every single day

Can someone, anyone please explain
How this world has come to be, bleeding with pain?
A sweet world where lovers once serenaded each other, spoke sweet words, held each others hands
Is now filled with such sexual exploitation, strangers breaking each others hearts after one night stands

Does someone, anybody know
How the times keep a’ changing so fast, a world once filled with friends now filled with foes
A world challenged in such social Darwinism, a monopoly game of madness bringing many down
A world where once smiles overcame all, now replaced by countless frowns

How ironic how it feels to live in a world burning in the greenhouse effect
Yet I feel like I’m freezing, using the hope I have left to keep me high from collapse
A world where we can’t breathe nearly as easily, rainforests crumbling away, killing our oxygen
Desertification destroying our prairies and woodlands, a phase that never finishes

Can someone, anyone please tell me
Why we live in a world filled with millions of homeless children, dying of sickness all lonely
Crawling about through the lightning storms and blizzards on their hands and knees
Starving to death, struggling to find even a mere loaf of bread, hearts beneath beating empty

How many times have you seen someone, anyone hurt someone else with desire?
From once we saw flower power flourish about, many possessing true love singing around the bonfires
Now all that power has withered, imperialism of the evil tongue affecting the world in a whole
Many seeking pleasure by making others feel bad, hurting others and leaving their spirits low

Now we are all alone
This is our last chance to save the future
We are all alone
We need a solution, not an answer
We must take this chance
We must take this chance
We must take this chance
While this world is here to last

Can someone, anyone please tell me
How such a happy place has become so much more depressing
A world where we still see light overcome fate
Can be such a sad, sad place
Please don’t change
Please don’t lose your pride
Keep afloat
Don’t let the darkness bring you down…

Somebody, anybody, can’t you hear the world cry?
Please, please, do something
Someone, anyone, can’t you see the world dying?
Do something, anything…
We together can still save this fallen paradise
While there is still time…



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1 posted 2001-03-15 10:42 PM


This is so sad.....no I don't think there are any answers to these questions, that could ever be right......very sad.... SEA
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2 posted 2001-03-15 10:43 PM


It is because,
we've lost the sacred
in our knowing
being naked
and the shame
of a fig leaf
foretold our thoughts
of honest grief...

Simply put, it is because,
we cannot change the things "that was"
Simply put, where our thoughts dwell?
Directs us each to simple hell.

I loved your poem, and found it inspirational, obviously...

Thank you.

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3 posted 2001-03-16 12:02 PM


Dear Mistletoe Angel. Yes, there are bad things going on around the world and we must do what we can, but if each of us reaches out to as many as we can each day, things will get better. I remember the old Sunday school song, "Brighten the Corner Where You Are." I think we are doing that a little right here on this forum. I see poems from everywhere. Thanks for your concern. Joyce
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4 posted 2001-03-16 10:28 AM


the author of "If it feels good, do it."
the author of "pleasure seeking"

the Prince of Darkness, tainting the meaning of love...carving it down into one erroneous meaning, one erotic meaning

when love has many facets and agape the greatest of assets being so much an unreachable star, when alone...attainable only with the help of the Agape King Himself

glad I came in and read this one Noah, even though depressing, one cannot begin to defeat the enemy when one does not recognize the enemy

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