Self Reflection Part 3
Who thought the decoy would lead the king and the queen to safety
And would you go crazy to save your world?
Who’s leading the psychics and poets into dangerous revolutions blindly?
And with my luck can never be exiled because they’ve spent soo many tax dollars
looking for break throughs when no one else was paying attention
So in the future I look crazy
Your saving grace
A madman or a saint they just might ask
They’ll point at me in suspicion of saying the true antichrist
But when the puzzle comes undone and my life goes underground even further
There is a method to my madness
No riddle on this page I laugh
No prediction I can see
We are all actors and the world is a stage
and that’s why those who work for Hollywood cant act
so that when we have to
we can do it good
and survive and that’s something the spies and detective and military
understand but are afraid of as they dance around me in the shadows of
ignorance and knowledge
And I slide from group to group
experiencing bomb threats and untold terrors
If you saw your great grandparents tortured by your country
Then your grandparents
Then your parents
and you were next in line
Do you rise above even if it means with equal force
Or do you lay down and die?
And what do you do when two other countries come in with ignorance
to help the bad guy hunt you down
Just for trying to overcome oppression
and then they wonder why their death toll is high
And in the mental institute where I'm the only one making sense
I cry that they wont come home before someone else gets involved to clean up
the mess
So I go back to self-reflecting of how I can better myself
and now I wonder
If I go to revolutionize my own backyard
are two countries going to come in and hunt me down?
And what ever happened to the days where they used to be exiled?
Copyright © Troy Nelson | Year Posted 2007
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