Listen

by Harry - Gemini

You may be a chamber pot that is treated like a special ally in life
You may be Pandora's box that throws wretchedness and strife 
You may be a victim in crimes, bruises, and scars, and next to you there is a knife 
You may be floating in the ocean to be food for birds and fish when things are rife 

It costs numberless lives to raise you with care and assistance 
You mean more than the sum of the other substance
That is filling up the universe with your living existence 
You are the past, present, and future altogether creating this instance 

Look at the world before you both in your house and out there 
You killed Socrates, Jesus, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
So many good thinkers have been lost, but you can enjoy your life there 
Even though I would rather care about them since ones like them are so rare

You may be curving your statues to show who you are 
You may be building your sanctuaries to show where you are 
You may be replicating your images to show who you are 
You may be talking, writing, singing, and dancing to show what you are 

When things get political, there are so many lies and rubbish heaps 
Bring some more coalitions to drive your mass to victory sweeps 
It is good to know about something when no false caption creeps 
The electromagnetic field is watching you within you whom it keeps 

If you want to rain to feed your family with your crops, you should close your eyes
If you could not save your teacher, why should he be saving your eyes? 
Close your eyes, and face your lies that nothing else ties
Then, you can see yourself through his eyes 

If you want to take off the skin from your animals, you should cover your ears
If you could not save your teacher, why should he be saving your ears? 
Cover your ears, and let Longinus spear your stomach that nothing else interferes 
Then, you can hear yourself through his ears 

If you want to live on in your land like yesterday, you should close your mind 
If you could not save your teacher, why should he be saving your mind? 
Close your mind, and hide yourself from the slaves and native tribes that nothing else can blind 
Then, you can open your mind as wide as his mind 

You may be worth like hundreds of thousands of millions of celestial starlights
Birth sign: Gemini
Date created: 2005-03-28 18:26:50
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:16
Poem ID: 70712

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