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We All FALL
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We All FALL |
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MERCURY Member
since 2003-04-16
Posts 190Ireland |
Time is indeed true and fair, Harrowing doubt leads to despair. Emotion equates how we feel, Love is the real ideal. Existence is a just cause, Despite of our insurmountable flaws. Through spoken tongue of different language This leads fearful paranoid anguish. How many of us are willing to drink the wine of truth? When did we lose the innocence of youth? What we believe and we perceive, Helps us to defraud and deceive. Why is war always a just cause? Why do the greedy reply because, because, because. As I saunter through my muddled mind, Time allegedly helps me to define, The reason of our being, Why our soul is all conquering and forever seeing. Why does the sun still shine? Unconcerned with the bleak news headlines! Why are the wicked inspired by the dark? Are we all branded with this trademark? There is still time to turn from this path, Where we may miss brooding vengeful wrath. As I briefly stop for some respite, I ponder over my own musing. The picture I paint is from a black unstable canvas. Up close and personal, Face to face, Here I stand before you, Unable to maintain lifes pace. Are we so arrogant these days that we think we can outwit death? Alas WE ALL FALL with our last breath. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
It's not easy living with all the questions but I believe it's meaningful in its own way- something like an awakening before the fall. |
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TerryW Senior Member
since 2000-03-23
Posts 779Louisville, Mississippi, USA |
Wow, Mercury! This is some serious soul-searching if I ever saw it! "How many of us are willing to drink the wine of truth? When did we lose the innocence of youth?" I believe that we have all asked ourselves these things at some time or other, but I do not know if it has ever been put so beautifully into words that I have seen. Thank you for giving me something to think about! ~you reached inside, you touched my heart, |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Mercury A poem of chilling questions, very good ones, I must add. The world is filled with terrorists of all kinds, some even have good intentions, but their methods are outdated... "How many of us are willing to drink the wine of truth?" Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King all offered this wine, most who drank of it were chastised by those already drunk on physical power, and did not listen, and still do not... "Why is war always a just cause?" The answer is that it is never a "just cause"...but always an effect of historical ignorance. Powerful entities setting up others because of greed. Some of the leaders of belligerents have reconsidered their position after many years of guiding their people into conflict... "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." --Julius Caesar "Why are the wicked inspired by the dark?" I will let Oscar Wilde answer.... "As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Are we so arrogant these days that we think we can outwit death? Alas WE ALL FALL with our last breath." Seems we think we can "outwit death" we play ring around the rosy with guns and bombs but in the end we all fall down with broken souls... "And what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" -- Mark 8: 36 Sorry for the overdone reply, deep thought brings out the novelist in me. enjoyed the read ----------ice ><> |
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LucidityNow Member
since 2001-02-06
Posts 118Canada |
ice said it all. Great poem though, I am coming to really enjoy your style. and i'm certain that if i drive into those trees, it would make less of a mess, than she's made of me... |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
good pondering write here |
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Kristabell Senior Member
since 2003-11-29
Posts 678Portland, OR |
Very interesting! Well written. I have pondered those very same questions. It is yet another cycle, one that has no answer like most questions that involve life. But what is life without questions?? |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
I'm on the same wavelength tonight. Enjoyed the write and am asking the same questions. We all should -- if we didn't, we'd be in even more trouble......jo |
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