The Lie
Winner of the 2016 (22nd Edition) Ewing Citation Award. (www.ptk.org)
A poem taken from the novel (The List: And Other Addendums of Poetic Prose)
Hear ye, hear ye!
Everything is fine, just fine...
Ease your mind
Take your rest
Be at peace
All is well
For the incongruent, insufferable, idiosyncrasies of the world
For the bantering, bombastic, blatantly bursting commercial machine
For the derogatory, detrimental, disadvantageous political wheel
For the noxious, notorious, ne'er-do-wells of religious strife
They turn, all turn
Grinding thought and expression
Unknown and underfoot
To powdery dust
Lost on the winds of time
Gone forever and never recurring
The quick hit
The quick fix
Need to fix it
Run like hell
Work like hell
To earn the money
To buy things you don't need
Not to worry, not to fret
Calm your spirit
Compose your soul
Accept, acknowledge, agree
Glossy dull eyes, that feed the machine
So hear ye, hear ye!
Everything is fine...just fine...
Author's Note
As we get older, we realize that the world isn't what we thought. With a commercial, political, and social compulsion to keep society moving and never ask why. To just go along with the crowd, fight with each other, and keep those in power, in power.
What do we really need? What is the point of life? Why do we all feel like hamsters running in an endless circle that leads to nowhere? I wrote this poem because I struggled with those concepts. I believe we could be so much more if we just put down our anger and work together in a sincere desire to make the world a better place. But we can't get there if we continue to ignore the manipulation going on behind the scenes.