Don’t turn your head, oh ignorant child
Don’t close your eyes to what you see
Don’t close your eyes to crowded streets and dollar signs
Don’t be blind to hypocrisies and constant crimes
Don’t lose your way, impressionable one
Don’t stray from the path that you set for yourself
Don’t stray to the crowd, driven only by greed
Don’t bother, try to change the hypocrites, their lies fill every bookshelf
Save yourself
Don’t lose hearing, oh so deafened child
Don’t cover your ears to what you hear
Don’t cover your ears to their voices, speaking of avarice and golden lore
Don’t be deaf to the words they hide; “money,” “sex,” and “more, more, more”
Don’t fall silent, oh bold singing child
Don’t lower your voice, if the truth you speak
Don’t lower your voice, singing for change that never comes
Don’t sit down, and don’t shut up- you know it’s only lies they keep
Don’t save yourself
Don’t speak to me, oh so foolish child
Don’t utter a word, until you, yourself, understand
Don’t utter a word, until you know, for yourself, the meaning of my words
Don’t speak to me, until you know.
Keep your eyes wide open,
Stay the path,
Listen to every word,
Sing the song in your heart.
Can you save yourself?
Will you even try?
Wow! This is a lot to take in. Very powerful ideas. One correction - bookshelf is one word. Why the conflicting suggestion to save or not to save to the reader?
ReplyDeleteyeah, i wrote bookshelf as one word on the paper, i don't know why i typed it as two. the conflicting suggestion there is because i want the reader to save their self, but i know they won't, nor will they try. people may read what i write, and say that they agree with it, but they won't change a thing. it's too much effort to change yourself. it's too much effort to be genuine. it's too much effort to stand above the crowd. and, to people, it's just not worth it. a few of the ideas in this actually originally came from a song i started to write before. by the time i started putting the song on paper, i lost the inspiration. but i retained some ideas, and I'll finish that eventually.
ReplyDeleteVery good poem. it was very long and very well organized. Congratulations on the successful writing of a poem.
ReplyDeletei really like it. sometimes long poems lose my interest after a while but this didnt
ReplyDeleteVery good. well organized for the lenth of the poem. overall a good job
ReplyDeleteThis kept my interest and I like that in a poem.
ReplyDeletevery deep, not afraid to speak your mind, i like it
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