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How Do You Know

5/21/16
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How you know
What's in the grass if you never mow

How you know
If you don't
Stay on your toes
And have nothing to show
Now and long ago


How you know
There couldn't be an undertow
Whichever way the waters flow

How you know
We're not alone
Or if this was originally our home


How you know
The digits to my phone


How you know
If the wind'll always blow
So that you can go
Fast and not slow
On the way back home

How you know
What lies below
And above each plateau

How you know
Who was the first to throw
A stone

How you know
You cover won't be blown
By an unnaccounted for dog chewing on a bone

How you know
Which areas have not been combed
Or used so that things could be grown

How you know
There isn't black ice on the road
After a heavy duty snow

How you know
What happened on this globe
And understand every piece of art or code

How do you know
What's written in each and every tome
As well as any ode

How you know
It won't domino
Like it has ever since long ago

How do you know
The truth always, you don't

How do you know
If they won't get another chance to say goodbye or hello

How do you know
What's been all ready seen by each and every drone
And what has and hasn't all ready been cloned


How do you know
If another will end up breaking the oath

How do you know
The weather could have such an effect on growth

How do you know
Both 
Sides of the slope
And the limit of each and every scope

By: Dalton Ogletree

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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