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Oh You People!

"Oh you people," I call to the living

"Why do you lament so"

"There comes evil, it is thriving"

you answered, though

I think good may be hiding

so I'll search to and fro

 

"Oh you people," I call to the living

"Watch now as I go,"

"I'll find the good you're craving,

under earth, sea or snow,"

"I'll return to end your crying,

this I swear I know"

 

"Oh you people," I call to the living

as I search near and far

my journey is not ending

at what I thought was par

"But I made a promise I am keeping,"

I said to no one there

 

 

"Oh you people!" I call to the living

"I know not where I am!"

I said it was you I'm saving,

But I am lost, a sham

But you are far away, unhearing

Out here I am a lonely man

 

"Oh you people!" I call to the living

but you never hear my plight

yet what is that I'm seeing?

In the distance is a light

Now my hopes are ever freeing

a smile is my right

 

"Oh you people!" I call to the living

"I have found what you may seek!"

"There is good here, I have found it!"

"Though now I am old and weak!"

They hear me, their faces lit

they hear me as I speak

 

"Oh you people," I call to the living

as they come seeking water and bread

"thank you," they call through the building

their towers high and red

Finally done is my purpose

I find peace once I lie dead.

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Jun 17, 2013
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