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May 2014
A tempest strung like so many small sick men, would never hold water,
were the eyes of ants to open,
and the mouths of the dead to speak.

Yet find, I dare you!
one person bigger then a mote,

and I will show you more ants
then can be counted.

It is not for lack of men and women with a tree amongst the bones of the chest that keep birds from singing;
but the greater number of def lambs and earless worms.

A word can be spoken in a white castle,
set on a mountain made of sand,
through a billion
empty
windows


and they call it truth.

And yet,
at the bottom of the largest ocean man has made,
these words ring truer,
yet more silent,
then where all men must go.
The tempest is the feeling that my government is too powerful to stop.

Small sick men describe the people in power.

The ants with the eyes closed and the dead describe those that refuse to admit there is anything wrong and are content to live there daily lives working day in and day out as if nothing is wrong.

The men and women with trees in there chest are those that have grown a back bone. they stand up against what is wrong with this country.

The birds represent change.

The white castle is the White-House in Washington .

The mouton made of sand represents the instability of our country with the idea that a single wave could wash it away.

The empty windows represent the televisions in every home.

The sea that man has made represents the internet.

The phrase "where all men must go" describes the ultimate fate of men.
Jacob Daniel Ellinger
Written by
Jacob Daniel Ellinger  Grand Rapids Michigan
(Grand Rapids Michigan)   
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