Cow Face
One Heck of a Guy
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Comment Thread The End It's coming now, it's coming fast. I don't know how long we can last. Present's a repeat of the past. It's coming on, it's coming fast. Everyone sees it, no-one knows How long it takes before it blows. Fear and fire, but mostly foes Greeted the sun that never rose. There is no fix, there is no mend; Not one of us can stop the end. News comes blowing in on the wind: News of the hole, news of the rend. Mute the sound, cover your ears! Hide your burdens, suppress your fear! Will it be weeks, months, even a year? Using laughter, disguise the tears. Peeling thunder, the coming storm Seems to take forever to form. Freezing fire, ice that is warm Announces the pestilent swarm. We're content in security, Yet we don't have our privacy. Long ago, we shattered the key To the cage that is all we see. What you have sown, you always reap. Why didn't this already seep Into our minds? There's not a peep From our old pride, that now but sleeps. No-one can stop the coming flood- Of tears? Of pain? Of strife, or blood? Nay, the river brings but a bud Of knowledge bliss- the end of blood. A Poem For the Future It's a poem for the future Where free speech died; It's a poem for the masses Who run and hide. Will you let yourself Become a slave? Will you resign yourself To the conclave? Cling to your opinions, They're all you've got. Defend your freedom Until you rot. It's a poem for the future Where free speech died; It's a poem for the masses Who run and hide. Whom you view as a savior Is truly your captor, Whom you hold in favor Holds you in rapture. It was a poem for the future Where all we did Was flee, like the masses- We ran and hid. The Noisiest Silence The noisiest silence that ever was heard: All thinkers radicals, all logic absurd. The fate of a nation depends on a word Spoken by one whose speech we have all heard Again and again, will it ever end? There's no deviation; no one will bend From the path that now forms the largest rend In our morbid republic- we fear the end. Change is but a word, saying that we must Just accept their lies, and let our minds rust. Their fairy-tale beckons, calls on our lust To accept their words, to give them our trust. We have no secrets, no things we can hide From their searching eyes. What happened to pride? Are we only beasts, that simply abide Their oppressive rule? What happened to pride? The quietest noise that never was heard: No thinkers or dreamers; all things are absurd. Out Of Your Control I wear a smile so I don't have to frown. I take a deep breath 'cause I don't want to drown. I laugh so hard because I feel I could cry. I haven't yet quit, but I don't want to try. I listen to the wind when I feel like dirt. I wipe blood on my chest to keep clean my shirt. I bite the spider, then I constrict the snake. I scream to no-one, 'cause that's all I can take. You can mend a broken arm, You can heal a broken skull. You can bandage up your harm, You can sharpen what is dull. But you can't fix a broken soul, No, no, it's out of your control. I grin through the pain, to show what I can bear. I patch up the hole, then I rip a new tear, Bellow to silence, then darken the lamp. The darkness is blinding, the fire is damp. Punch-drunk yet standing: a shadow of a man Who listens to naught but the blade in the fan. Silently weeping, for no-one's yet been told Of the pain he now suffers- his fractured soul. You can mend a broken arm, You can heal a broken skull. You can bandage up your harm, You can sharpen what is dull. But you can't fix a broken soul, No, no, it's out of your control. No, no, no, it's out of your control... Red, White, and Grey Black trampled green, turning it brown, Then headed on to red-stained ground. Grey fired grey, which then met tan, 'Till navy reigned, then it started again. Crimson changed orange, then turned to blue, Next, camouflage gathered its dues. Black white and brown shot up the town. More grey flung grey; more red spilled down. Blue waxed darker; soon out came white. Brown swirled 'round, as if 'twere a blight. White looked down on the fractured scene, And saw only the red of human beings.
< Message edited by Cow Face -- 6/1/2010 14:33:58 >
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