If everyone could see you
If everyone could read you
If everyone could be you would they be you or delete you
Are you a slave to fashion
Or do you have any passion
Is there a thought that by yourself that you can fathom
Is your behavior
Just another caper
Is your soul made of fire or green paper
Are we all destined
To die lonely sinners
Cause we confuse who's the loser and who's the winner
for example:
suppose green
as if it were a thought
remember
green
as it once was taught
touch something;
call it green
name something
manufacturing a meaning.
greening it,
claiming green
as your own,
holding it now as
a word of substance
a word of meaning,
a manufactured reality.
the absolute realness of green and then
another
and another. and yet
where is that substance
that I have not been taught?
thought
where is thought -
for example
A bewildered alphabet
Struggles
To form words
Its letters tumble
Through the turbulence
Of thought’s tyranny
Syllables scamper sillily
In search of Iambs
Stretching the seams
Of ill-fitted suits
As punctuation ponders its place
Lost in a colonic comma coma
As the meters peter out
Amid the harsh drumming
Of repetitive endings
Thus, do the letters taunt
the free range haunts
of cage free thought
Life is a dancing frequency
and being off key
can cost you to lose your soul
and return back to the abyss.
Nothing can escape the void.
Unless, you stare it in the eyes
and it stares back.
And then what?
Be Bold!
Be Brave!
Be Fearless!
Have Courage!
And, if you stare long enough.
Victory shall be yours.
Then you too, shall say: Let there be light!
~ Kentrell Parker~
Raise a glass to all who care
About civil rights and the Koala bear
Save the planet, spare the rod
Make them listen, ride roughshod
Assume that we're ignorant, tie back our ears
Open our eye's year upon year
"Please let me through, let me go to work"
"Just Stop Oil" said with a smirk
Glued to trains, who's idea was that
The men who pay these idiots, Yes those prats
Disrupt where they can, disrupt everything
Nothing will stop them till the Fat Lady sings
They wreck havoc each day with total impunity
Disrupting our lives away from their communities
Selfish actions that can affect our lives
Not to their families but our children and wives
Enough is enough now, let us decide
Not to be bullied into taking your side
Your actions disgust me, I just want to be
In control of my thoughts which I once thought were free.
Meandering paths through the forest of voices
We all hunt the Fox, the fox of truth and of choices.
Let loose the hounds that lose the scent.
The foul fishy flash that keeps their nose bent.
Sell your head scratching questions to buy the cheap thrill
From the glossy silver lips of the letters on the hill.
The grand distraction of planned attraction
Gets a bland reaction 'till they force down the pill.
Count on the fact the books make us bored.
“Is it time for the signal from Greenwich?”
This just in...your minds been twined with a flaxen cord.
Keep your eyes on the chest, leave the treasure ignored.
The gluttonous fat man with round swirly eyes
Circles through the channels as he shoves in the fries.
Ignorance is only the fault of the one.
He never opened a page or his mind ‘fore he dies.
The man on the horse knows his time is soon spent.
The dogs and the fish have open resent.
Cunning and silence keeps the fox so majestic.
The pray of the fish is to keep doG domestic.
Free Thought
Do we doubt ourselves?
We are chained to other people’s conception of us.
Why do we believe that we need to conform to this world?
Is their mantra driving us not to think for ourselves?
We are driven by symbols that re-enforce their mantra.
Can we think for ourselves?
Yes, we can when we are aware of this.
How can we be free from their subtle tyranny?
Easy.
Question everything and find your own answers.
Do not rely on what answers given to you by other People.
Question it!
Question your Faith.
Question all your beliefs.
Question Your loyalties.
Find your own answers!
If your answers are correct on a belief, keep it.
If they are false then throw them away.
Daily, use this method and you will know the truth in your own way.
You then will truly be set FREE!
So, What is a belief?
It's a question that has been answered.
There is an animal in my head
That is dying to be feed
He needs to be set free
In the form of literacy
He has so many things to say
Things to share, words to display
Feeling that are deep within
Kept in hiding like a deadly sin
I have found a way to be free
In the form of writing spree
If I offend I meant no harm
Just innocent words of charm
The animal is caged once again
I don’t want you to think I’m inhumane
I will let him free in a little while
When I need to release my style
Duane A. LaChance Sr. – 2012
Random thought on ten minute clock as been deleted and rethought
from a more steady mind then th one of mine
I held all those years ago and for the waisted time
you may have spent on that ryme I really apologize
You see you dont really see the things your saying
not when your overmedicated your mind is gone and you are just
litigating between the voices in your head trying to have some peace
your just trying to clear your head get some rest and go to bed
I cant really relate to myself and who I was
and I cant remember the person that came before
down south fat boy who had a lot of fun it not the memmories
that miss me but the way i handled the activities how social I was
So next time if you happen to be in a crowd
and you see someone awkward and hear people talk about them in the crowd
take the time to speak to them and get past their wall
they are the best friends you will ever find so dont be so proud
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