Do you dream in technicolor?
Or is it as black and white
As right or wrong
Are you guilty as charged?
Will you let your rainbowed passions
Break from their prism
Do you need a pot of gold
To stir them in?
Do you only see green
The greed of the fertile land
Where you can plant your dreams
Your technicolor dreams
Not just brown nosing or pearly gate goals
Goals turn your nails blue
And your heart grey
A vibrant torrid love affair red, the lipstick smeared on your chest
Love in pink
Dream the rainbow
You must think me a thick skull
You thought you had me too
Yeah, honey, skip to your own loo
Cause this one's already full
Of your brown nosing, so shoo!
Cause this cow will call you on your bull
a sestet
If I didn't know what I know about truth
I'd give a wink, join the ranks of the uncouth.
Logical conclusion when dealing with guile:
Half-truths are just exaggeration's test
hyperbole - inaccuracy at best.
Little white lies? spout off, and smile.
"Thus yellow does for white (behind your back),
when what you put for yellow's, simply black."
to quote Fra Lippo Lippi's epigram
In conversation with someone who lies;
one-up-put-downmanship is not so wise.
Pretending to lie is just one more sham.
September 1, 2012
Author's Notes:
Fra Lippo Lippi is a poem by Robert Browning
Just like football I’m a team player
But In the game of life; one could get a dagger
In ones back; if one is not careful.
Even if one adheres to the rules; it may seem like one big hassle
One could get blamed for being a fool;
All the while, trying to play it cool
As one climbs to the top
While riding the coattails of some boy genius
Defended him on the spot
By brown nosing and yes man grinning
Shaking hands puts one spinning,
Out of control and a bit confused.
One thing I should say is-
“Stay true to you!”
So one does not look like a buffoon.
On ones gallop to the peek
Then the rat race will not seem so bleak
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