Pearls Before Swine
The current keeps pushing, pushing me
Trying to make me move.
But no matter how hard the push is,
Budge is not something I’ll do.
I close up when anyone passes,
I try not to talk too loud,
I refuse to leave my little rock,
And I stay away from crowds.
No matter how hard I try to stop
Life’s sands from getting in,
It always ends with my opening up,
That’s when the process begins.
When the sand of life’s experience
Wheedles its way inside
It ends up getting stuck within me
And there’s nowhere I can hide.
Experience is just a splinter
That irritates my being.
It may be very annoying but,
I have to live with the thing.
To protect myself from being hurt
I cover it with my dreams.
It takes a while to make it safe
And is harder than it seems.
I continue to cover up the
Sand with those dreams of mine
Until a new thing starts to take shape
And it begins to shine.
When you all see the brilliance of it
That’s when you’ll value me.
One day I’ll use all my dreams for this
And that’s when you will see:
We all have a chance to make such things,
Even someone like me.