As I See It As I Have Heard It
As I see it !!! As I have heard it !!!
You say !, you have written !, “ I do not lie ! ”.
On many, many an occasion, I have stood by,
and listened to many – over the years – a lying word.
In all honesty ?, you cannot deny this is what I have heard.
Where is it coming from ?, habit ?, a need to survive
a past ?, what you need to hide from ?, a method to stay alive ?
It continues to remain within, as today harbors the past
that should be buried – not so, for today it cast
it’s troubled shadow all over my day, my hour
over my heart, my spirit – my soul continues to tower.
I look into, I see the future, – after fifty three years –
for you, then, now and tomorrow nothing but tears.
These words, from me, I realize, feel like spears
and you want not filling your eyes, your ears.
B. J. “A” 2
May 18th 2006
Copyright © William J. Jr. Atfield | Year Posted 2015
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