Poetry
When I was a little boy
I couldnt be mean
Could not understand all the harshness
I'd seen
So I ran like the wind
For the world of my dreams
Spread my wings
and flew like a bird
for the in between
I could not go into
The big machine
My friends and my family
felt sorry for me
After all what could a runner and a
dreamer be
Like a sailor adrift
on a make believe sea
My imagination got the best of me
They said,
"That boy better get outside of his head-
Get plugged into
the Big machine"
So I did
I let the carvers cut my wings
Make a cast to pour me in
so I could fit
but i didnt
but I tried
Till something in me almost died
Till laying there in cruelties fist
My heart was banished into the mists
Within the great divide.
My body worked
but my soul was lost inside
"Don't go out!"
That's what they say
"You're safe in here
(If you can pay)
We make the cogs
We oil the gears
With a young man's anger
an old man's fears
a mother's worry
a daughters tears
By the hunger of children
and the profit of war
Don't you worry
We'll keep score
We'll cook the books
And lock the door"
When I was an old man
I couldn't be mean
Could not understand all the harshness
I'd seen
So I ran like the wind
For the world of my dreams
I spread my branches
Like an ancient tree
Roots in the earth
Rustling leaves
Whispering
What I have seen
Aint nothin but sorrow in that big machine.
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