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A Man will ask himself:

 

Is the glass taken of half

 

Or given of it?

 

 

We hear this tale

 

Unworn and aged

 

(Like a fine wine

 

Save a rich cheese

 

Always a decadence

 

An adornment so sweet.

 

Fruits that our mother

 

Blesses us with)

 

and look into the crystal

 

Search for grace

 

We think comes from

 

Wonders of the light.

 

But man’s feeble mind

 

Is so beguiled

 

(Hoodwinked into

 

Vizard

 

By the lures

 

Of such a beautiful thing

 

As crystal.)

 

And rapt with greed.

 

 

So much brawn

 

Is put to

 

Pondering the

 

Substance

 

Of the vessel

 

(such thought

 

That manifests itself

 

In a disease

 

More blood ridden

 

Than a

 

Plague)

 

in materialism

 

(the silent

 

Murderer

 

That infects the

 

Mind of a

 

worldly soul)

 

and has no cure

 

To emerge from

 

A field of

 

Medical travesty.

 

 

When all has

 

Passed

 

And man answers

 

for his sins,

 

One will in the end

 

Discover

 

the question

 

That never works it’s way

 

To the lips

 

(If not even

 

Figments of thought

 

In words)

 

What have you to say

About the fill

Of a glass

When it has

Shattered

Upon the floor?

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Written by
mike-finney
American
Published
Jan 14, 2012
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