Best Verify Poems
Trust--
There's none
anymore!
Not here, not now,
It's an old fable
long tucked away in books,
Oh, in sermons and scriptures,
Mythology and fairytales;
A treasure rare and precious as gems--
A figment of our imagination!
Trust but thyself and to thyself be true,
Yet indulge not in thine own conceit,
Mistrust no man without just cause
nor credulous without proof,
Stay not far from reason
nor close to folly…
Trust’s hard to find,
But when found
Let not
go!
Abdul Malik, 10/2/15
~Trashed #3, Sponsor, Broken Wings
One eye open
One eye close
Trust, but verify
Doc, you meant
what you said
They are all laughing and guffawing.
But they do not read the books I do.
And they do not have my heartfelt messages.
The ones that are so absolute
That I know what I know without knowing how
Yet I do know. Verification comes in goosebumps.
It is an inner knowing none of them have.
I do not tell them either
For it is something else they would laugh about.
What is going on? I ask them.
John thinks aliens are real, Tim says.
They explode into enormous carnival rides of laughter.
John gets mad and huffs off. I follow him.
Come on back! Someone yells. I ignore this.
I think we do have aliens I tell him. He says “yeah, right.”
Don’t bother, an inner voice says, but I ignore it.
I have thought it for a long time, I say.
He says something means and shoves off.
An inner voice says “told you.”
Yes, I knew better.
I had been trying to get someone to listen for the past ten years.
It is an inner knowing that aliens do exist.
My neck saturates itself with goosebumps
Verifying that aliens do exist.
That is how I know.
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