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Open Poetry #36

The World Keeps Turning

Kal525
Junior Member

since 2005-12-20

Posts 26

0 posted 2005-12-26 12:41 PM

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The world keeps on turning day and night,
As we keep on yearning for things out of sight.
The harder we try and the harder we fight,
The deeper we fall in our miserable plight.

Wanting and needing things not worth having,
Leaving us dying with no loved ones caring.
Our consumptions consume us, compassion eludes us,
And all the while we pray that God will exhume us.

But the world keeps turning, the grass keeps growing,
And our nine to five jobs will forever keep going.

Is it too much to ask for a minute of peace?
A minute where time itself can cease,
Leaving us lost and leaving us free,
To live our lives the way they were meant to be.

But the world will keep turning and people will surely keep yearning,
Until the end of their days when in their graves they’ll be turning.
And I’ll be right there, in the graveyard observing and on my tombstone you’ll read,
“The world stopped turning.”

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2005-12-26 05:34 AM

Is it too much to ask for a minute of peace?
A minute where time itself can cease,

I like these lines..and I like to stop time every now and then..even if only in my mind~~

M

Bodger
Senior Member

since 2005-06-12

Posts 1260
Tolerance for a short time

2 posted 2005-12-26 01:48 PM

No it is never too long to ask for that moment of peace

Or to demand

It is a right

Dave

Kal525
Junior Member

since 2005-12-20

Posts 26

3 posted 2005-12-26 06:33 PM

Although it may be a right, it is certainly difficult to find in our consumer driven society. Work --> buy --> work --> die. The luckiest of us are the ones who fit love somewhere in there.

Jeep Monkey
Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 96
Chaos

4 posted 2005-12-26 09:00 PM

Vicious Taunting
A Life Of Yearning
People Wanting
Never Learning
Green But A Season
Grass Lures Us All
Without Reason
Too Many Fall

I liked your poem. We do live in a society of Chaos and unending chases.

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