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Pleasing Swine


Pleasing Swine

 

Don't throw your pearls to the swine

If you do, when you do

Know that

The swine won't see your sacrifice

The swine won't see your suffering

The hours, and the time you slaved to please them

Those bootless hours only makes the earth sigh in shame

 

Because your heart is battered down

Because your pearls have been trampled on

You have to come to one conclusion

Pleasing the unpleasable is unpossible

Free your soul from anguish and leave the swine and ascend to more

 

Life is but a moment

Remember the days you spent idle in vain  

And when you spent your time casting your pearls to the pigs

They laugh at you because you're wasting your worth

Your wasting your days

Live for the pearls rather than the swine

Live for the moments that make wars, famine, and fear disintegrate

Live for the peace

The peace in your soul

The peace you cannot comprise

The peace you get when you keep your pearls rather than when you sew them to the swine.

 

 

 
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