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Follow Me
by Alisa Jsthere is no easy way to say this
crushing of the skull,
dimming of the eyes as the spirit seeks to roam
the view from deep within, clarity in the hush of night
look at that landscape, replete
it's all there
in black and shades of gray ...
follow me and I'll show you how
to find yourself, to know who it is
that sees the trees, beyond the rings that bind
standing here among the shells
of who we used to be ...
step outside tradition's lie
taught and threading through the ages,
smash the boxed conditioning
with pablum we been bought and sold
this bag of tricks, worthless
spread out before us, impotent
considering,
the greater scheme of things,
free your mind ... 04/28/2007 Posted on 04/28/2007
Copyright © 2024 Alisa Js
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Dave Fitzgerald on 04/28/07 at 10:40 PM that's powerful. love the last line |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 04/29/07 at 04:11 AM Very powerful. Right off the bat, you go for the throat. I love that. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 04/29/07 at 12:23 PM And what I find powerful, -what yanked me in - is the very beginning "there is no easy way to say this". And you followed through well! —Jill |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 04/29/07 at 02:07 PM You make a strong case here to surrender to the title. Magnificent poetics; I especially like that second stanza. |
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