Attention Please…
Ahem
Good morning boys and girls
Let me take a minute of your time
And introduce you to the skills
Possessed in a rhyme
Hope you don’t mind
And if you do
Now is the time
To leave…
You’ll get offended otherwise
Wishing you had other eyes because
As you read you’ll forget a great many lies
Have a great many whys so “sigh”
If you are one of those guys
Or girls who are sensitive then alas
You must pass
Attention please
I’ve been beset by what’s been called the
Lack of intellect
The mental disease
Watching
Listening to those that talk about things
They don’t understand
Like when someone dies and
They are the bereaved
I believed once upon a time I might have said it
Once upon a rhyme that
In the head of humans is the desire to learn to grow
To earn the things that they know
But I was talking about myself
Conceited I know…so
The point of the matter I never bring myself to a point
Where I don’t see us all at
So when I say I am it’s not a meaning to flatter
It’s a guide post to an invisible place
A meeting-meaning-to gather
So I take the time to share what I know because
Well
It’s selfish when someone else had to share
For me to know the things that I know
So I don’t need the
Attention
Please
I’d rather be at home alone
Or in the middle of a river sitting on a stone
But I’m stuck in this place…
So this is what’s supposed to be done in this place
We share
We care
Another has a problem we sit
We hear
Usually they’re
The ones silently crying out for
Attention please
But who helps
Just many people with empty words…
No direction just empty words
so when you point them to a path they expect
And are misguided
Jaded from empty words
What can you do then but offer some more empty verbs
They think
They believed
Been deceived for so long
That when you tell them to trust their own feet
They were told that those feet are weak
So wrong
Because I met many that were so strong
Suddenly had the spell on their eyes and
Maybe this is the only lie I reveal that’s been told
For so long.
But it’s yourself that’s the key not the back of another
So when I suggest I only suggest I don’t dictate
Or say I’ll carry you
Rather
If that was the case you’d be nothing but a child
And clarity and wisdom would be nothing but a style
But we know better
Forget it
I don’t feel like talking anymore
Look at each other
Pay attention please…
G.C. Feb. 24/2007
Edited Dec. 10/2012