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Suffering Fools

All the bones at the bottoms of the rivers

 

Piling up under the bridges

 

All of the grief and lonely shivers

 

Washing out from the land to the seas

 

 

All of the mothers and sons in their caskets

 

For father’s ammo and daughter’s lies

 

All the babies placed in rivers in baskets

 

With hopes for their futures and tears in their eyes

 

 

The suffering fools can’t be accountable

 

Their fates stand on the edge of a knife

 

The suffering fools won’t be available

 

They don’t last long in the world of lies

 

I suffer the fools not gladly, but solemnly

 

It breaks my heart that I’m not on their side

 

I’m suffering fools and I can’t be responsible

 

I’ve had to suffer fools all of my life

 

 

From the desert of the mediocre, aggressive and arrogant

 

An oasis of sincerity is what I have sought

 

All this time I’ve put up with ignorance

 

to deny my merely rational thoughts

 

 

Each of the myths that was meant to save us

 

A foundation of sorrow and hopeless consent

 

What can be done with satyrs and saviours

 

By now no one knows what they really meant

 

 

The suffering fools can’t be accountable

 

Refusing to give, but eager to take

 

The suffering fools won’t be available

 

And decline to shift even for their own sake

 

I suffer the fools not gladly, but shamefully

 

It breaks my heart to know what’s at stake

 

I’m suffering fools and I know it’s disgraceful

 

But I’ve suffered all the fools that I can take

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clyde-yulassetar-wiggin
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Published
Feb 5, 2013
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