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EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
edited February 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
The months of my calendar flip like pages in a book
The sun draws out of the bed a series of habits
I rarely have moments to sit and look
Decipher all the things that are my world
To question what it is that I believe
Or bathe in the endless mysteries

The clothes I wear all seem to be smaller
Thoughts are boiling like a covered pot of water
And although my legs haven’t grown taller
Everything inside me seems to spill over
Are my dreams the dreams of my father?
Should I be life’s character or life’s author?

The cities are coated with a layer of disaster
As gardens covered with a blanket of snow
Will the things we build survive the hereafter?
The seeds of steel and glass may never be planted
Is it that knowledge makes youth travel faster?
Or that memory is our slave and our master?

The path to understanding may be a shortcut
The path of creation plodding and narrow
The forces of change, from quasar to chestnut
Are without magnitude, or fixed importance
To entreat insignificance, will only bring sorrow
For good or ill, existence feels only tomorrow

Is there some plan to all human interaction?
Are casual glances atoms careening along?
An explosion of energy, and our world’s a reaction
To an unanswerable question, that exists only in rhyme
In sleep will we find where we truly belong?
Will our exploits be captured in some immortal song?
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  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    Originally posted by EvilToasterElf

    hellfire, you are good with words :):)

    there's a few stops in the cadence, and if you'll allow, and with all necessary apologies for my audacity... i wish to suggest the following:





    The clothes I wear all seem to be smaller
    Thoughts are boiling like a covered pot of water
    And although my legs haven’t grown taller
    Everything inside me seems to spill over
    Are my dreams the dreams of my father?
    Should I be life’s character or life’s author?

    The cities are coated with a layer of disaster
    As gardens are covered with blankets of snow
    Will the things we build survive the hereafter?
    The seeds of steel and glass omit may never be planted
    Is it that knowledge makes youth travel faster?
    Or that memory omit is our slave and memory our master?

    The path to understanding may be a shortcut
    The path of creation plodding and narrow
    The forces of change, from quasar to chestnut
    Are without magnitude, or fixed importance
    To entreat insignificance, will only bring sorrow
    For good or ill, existence feels only tomorrow

    Is there some plan to all human interaction?
    Are casual glances atoms careening along?
    An explosion of energy, and our world’s a reaction
    To an unanswerable question, that exists only in rhyme
    In sleep will we find where we truly belong?
    Will our exploits be captured in some immortal song?
    It's all yellow.


  • thanks yellow - those all seem like good changes - that's an old one I gave up on a while ago - I'm glad I put it up
  • Originally posted by EvilToasterElf
    thanks yellow - those all seem like good changes - that's an old one I gave up on a while ago - I'm glad I put it up

    I'm glad you put it up too! I enjoyed all the thoughtful questionning and quizzing--very insightful! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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