Open Your Eyes

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 17:23 -- sldavey

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02818
United States
41° 38' 58.578" N, 71° 29' 21.4836" W

If you look into the mirror and open your eyes,

You'll see each day your smile dies.

'Cause with each day you begin to see

That life isn't what its meant to be.



We're killing and cheating, lying and stealing,

Cursing drinking smoking beating.

If this was what life was intended to be,

You'd all have black wings on the back of thee.



If life were meant to be this way,

The world would be black and the trees wouldn't sway.

The wind would not caress our cheeks.

We wouldn't have duties throughout each week.



But here we are, killing our souls,

Partying, mating, diminishing what's whole.

We have too much fun poisoning our skin.

Although we understand it's the only one we live in.



Maybe if we could open our eyes,

So many innocent people wouldn't die.

Drunk driving, suicide, many other tragedy

Should be enough for us to see.


If we open our eyes to all these facts,

Look back and see all the wrong chosen paths,

We can make our life what its meant to be,

When we can look in the mirror and truly see.

(A Broadside for this poem can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsapolevault2013/sets/72157633278346632/ )

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