The Good Samaritan
You worry I might track you
with suspicion and be leary
of what you might be doing
while rushing around
and hurrying,
But I am not insecure, and just vaguely jealous,
and if rightly connected
I could be very zealous
to watch you wander
and heal a blind eye,
to enrich the unfullfilled
or stop a child's cry.
I'd glow in yr brilliance
with understanding and a resonance
of my own
incompletion,
and yr giving countenance,
But I do have a tendency
to be tricked and misled,
by those whom I'd trusted
on words that'd been said,
I willingly help
only to be robbed,
the GOOD SAMARITAN who
got stoned
buy the MOB
of human-borne
Haters of this life
as we know it,
If I only could explain IT
to them
they'd climb in my BOE-IT
and sail to a freedom
of justice
and grain
for all who might
seek
shelter from rain,
A place I oft see
in dual revery
(both mundane and insane)
the Place we will
go at the end
of the game.
II
So, I quit smoking for the sake of my chest
I thank Jah there
are other ways to safely injest
this King Solomon fairy pixie dust
that is blessed
by an honorable sanctity ordained
by the One
who created the Earth
and gave us the Sun
Who practiced in method
of which that he taught,
of kindness and patience,
and virtue He fought
against the masses
of the unseeing and dumb
who use wise words and phrases
that roll off the tongue
but know very little
of these words that they preach;
to learn from the Master
One must learn how to teach
the ways of our union
with nature and time
and hold deep understanding
that can't be explained with a rhyme...
Copyright © Mark Riedel | Year Posted 2006
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