Just Stood There Grinning
Just stood there grinning
Watching fools pass by
Being what they pretend
Hiding from own reality
Lost in false impressions
More valued than dignity
Laughing for sake's effect
Happy yet truly sad
Wrapped in plastic surroundings
Slipping up drooling slopes
Talking to hear themselves
Deaf to any answer
Hair blowing in breeze
More concerned with style
Than what lies beneath
Brain wasted by conceit
Compassion an after thought
Centered only on self
Grasping for golden rings
Worth nothing in eternity
Love just a word
Seeing loyalty as obscene
Old fashioned a joke
Material things most valued
Sneering at the elderly
Pathetically so boldly unaware
They were their past
Faces revealing mortal future
Copyright © 2015 Robert William Gruhn - All Rights Reserved
"A poem to me is the essence of any thought,
Being built from its foundation into tower scraping sky.
It can fly like no other bird to places never seen,
Even spaceships can only dream of taking its place."
© 2015 Robert William Gruhn
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