Beware For Thoughts Are Things
the theory says: “beware, for thoughts are things”
and voice the means by which it brays or sings
for were we held to pay for what we think
we’d skate forever ‘round an oval rink
whereas the learned might decry our pain
they must admit that they do just the same
confined behind a title on a door
denied the thoughts they used to think before
the winds of time and fate abandoned them
they sank, somehow forgetting they could swim
for thoughts, those things that haunt them evermore
somehow become cold stones on distant shore
so close your eyes, deny the muffled screams
of distant thoughts now lost within your dreams
John G. Lawless
©3/25/2022
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