Have You?
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Have you?
Yet with closed eyes,
Felt restricted to limits.
Have you?
Done this to wonder,
Why?
Have you?
Allowed this boundless darkness,
Take you away to places...
Where dreams are made to create?
Have you?
Yet with closed eyes,
Felt as free as you possibly can be?
With a letting go,
Of all that you believe...
To leave it where it is unseen?
Have you?
Have you ever notice,
With your eyes opened wide.
And ears to hear whatever heard.
To become more conscious,
Of what others say and do?
That may or may not include you at all.
But..
Remains on your mind.
Giving it time to condone.
When your time spent to come,
You spend it done...
Blaming to claim someone else,
For what they do.
While restricting to limit more,
Of a letting go of what others know...
To know less but yet,
Keeps your mind as if theirs to control.
Have you?
Ever wondered why,
The business of others...
Keeps you limited as if to restrict,
A minding of your own business?
To discover this to do,
Has more benefits.
If you allow and prove it to yourself.
Have you?
At least attempted it?
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Words | 199 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 44 |
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