Buried Bones

Spur the moment flashes the motivation for most of the human race. Having fun but leaving 
no trace, death occurs at a rapid pace.
	
Cover your ass and save your face, seems to be the motto of our American taste. 
	
Living with out shame or guilt has kept most warm under their quilt, walking high on stilts. 
	
Sweeping under the rug all of our silt, with a closet full of bones sheltering a host of many 
wrongs. We all know that song. 
	
Our country has lied to all from every side; there are some things we shouldn’t digest from 
the inside, without causing panic of a riotous riptide. 
	
This place will devour itself in a matter of time; the ravenous mass that is without esteemed 
class shall run over all say the last. 
	
Make haste that we don’t waste what we have worked so hard to taste, forsaken are those 
unplaced. 
	
The story is old and always foretold, buried bones haunt the mind till one is old. 
    
 

					
James C Bryant Jr.
					
January 8, 2002
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010


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Date: 1/7/2011 12:29:00 PM
yes i can see what you are driving at, James
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Date: 9/4/2010 7:21:00 PM
different poem...welcome to poetrysoup!!
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