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Subject: Simplistic Poetic Complexity Author: David Young [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:18:25 09/02/02 Mon Author Host/IP: adsl-61-189-218.bhm.bellsouth.net/208.61.189.218 SIMPLICITY If in nothing, you are aware of something For you see the beauty of nothing How magnificent something will be If in the filth of existing A blossom extend itself heavenly Is this not a miracle? With no hope and despair evident How can you wish for change? Except to work for the impossible dream In small steps of disgust That takes your emotions down the drain How is it that some, can smile their way out of it If in all the jealousies and words of ill repute That sends identities down the sewers Because some have to destroy others in order to exist Can the truth ever be respected again In the loving words of respect for all of humanity POETIC If I should ever give up as a poet And not try to open people’s minds Then my words would still haunt me Driving me from death’s door Even in skeletal form Thoughts will emerge in a rebirth That will never give me peace Until my creator silences me For never having existed But alas my curse is my blessing While some will try to bury it Into the far reaches of space The seed in some will spread it around Like ragweed pollen that disturb some With the allergies of real life Coming back to haunt you COMPLEXITY How can I change corporate policies? I can not but you can How can you make politicians do the right thing? Nobody can Except by eliminating the cancer And saying we all can! Why should my words matter? For mass media has control over thought Molding us into the conformity to not ask why Think about it, if you dare Ask them for your freedom of speech In the freedom of a free press Ask them for a program Where ordinary people can again talk And not be Jerry Springer animals In my tears of thorns That sends me crazed into my illusions Saying that some people still care I write from a broken heart Whose spirit lay wasted From too much self abuse For the cuts and abrasions Have drained the dust within me Into a shell ready to crack But somehow never, ever ready To give up totally So in this mess You see why, I must be institutionalized To be imprisoned beyond hope Obliterated into a shredder Which accountants lose their respect in But conveniently conforming to the pressure That I cannot So shred away the media of my reasoning For the mind can only be shredded in death D.Lester Young 9/2/2002 Tuscaloosa, AL Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Simplistic Poetic Complexity Deb 18:41:04 09/02/02 Mon