27 BLACK ROBES WITH
SKELETONS IN THEM HELD UP BY WIRE HANGERS JUDGING ME.
Is it really a surprise or did you fail to ask before you
started to task others with your own thoughts and compel them to see through
your eyes the sights that make up your view. Do you really want to share the
only pew in a sacred place known to none but you? In the holy grotto of your
heart, where is born the idea that love is only of one kind?
I cannot count how many times the road was made too long, because I was adamantly wrong. Is it better to let me hold onto what I believe or force upon me a redemption I don’t need to receive from men who only care that they have a crowd to lead? I am not what you perceive and not one who longs to spend my life in grief, though I do, with nowhere to the left to swim in waters of relief.
I cannot count how many times the road was made too long, because I was adamantly wrong. Is it better to let me hold onto what I believe or force upon me a redemption I don’t need to receive from men who only care that they have a crowd to lead? I am not what you perceive and not one who longs to spend my life in grief, though I do, with nowhere to the left to swim in waters of relief.
I find all my dream as in all schemes want to be, is crowded
out, away from me, because I forgot to ask if it was fine that I dine alone. Never
ask a forgotten man to tea; for after many years when he appears he’ll never be
what you remembered him to be when you were his parentless child.
Try not to touch the fossils though they be rock hard. Learning
comes from looking for answers not by using old bones as drum sticks to bang
out the plethora of needs that surround us all, each with a different use for
nineteen cents a day, with millions of dollars spent asking for that pittance
for everything from veterans to animal shelters. I don’t have that many
nineteen cents for remittance because every time I turn around the government
is hitting me with more penance as it sells to the rich indulgence.
I know, I know it’s really not a surprise that I failed to ask, before I started to task others with my own thoughts and compel them to see through my eyes the sights that make up my view. I simply decided to do what I had to do to get in on the act of manipulating your heart with sad puppy dog eyes stipulating I do take monthly direct deposit for my cause célèbre: me.
© M Durfee
I know, I know it’s really not a surprise that I failed to ask, before I started to task others with my own thoughts and compel them to see through my eyes the sights that make up my view. I simply decided to do what I had to do to get in on the act of manipulating your heart with sad puppy dog eyes stipulating I do take monthly direct deposit for my cause célèbre: me.
© M Durfee
10.15.2014
we all have ou wants and needs...and we can very easily put those wants and needs on others....and even task or take away from others in order to meet our own needs...they will always come in conflict and contact with the needs of others...wonder if we could ever agree on our needs....
ReplyDeleteSkeletons in Black Robes. Strong image. For some reason the Supreme Court comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a task nor a demand, it's an option, an invitation to look at the world from a different perspective.
ReplyDeleteTotally love this kind of writing from you.
I like what Plain Observer said. Good writing, WM
ReplyDeleteEvery day is judgment day, indeed. Different perspectives are where it's at. . .
ReplyDelete... as long as those skeletons in black robes are not coming from your own closet ... you have options ... just sayin ... Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of 27? Interesting...
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