Self-Evident Truths

Never take it lightly

For we have but one.

We choose how to spend it

Until its course is run.

But time will hold us captive.

Don’t reach the end and find

What you have is nothing

Compared to what you leave behind.

Living as you’d like to

Speaking without fear

Voting your own conscience

Hail the blogosphere

Like an adolescent

Insisting they know best

Never heed the warnings

And you’ll own the mess

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Agnostic and prophets

The honest and frauds

Citizen soldier

Built this house of cards

Workers and players

The rich and the poor

Toil and struggle

All vying for more

Colors and sizes

Language and race

Totally different

Yet similar face

Free from oppression

But do we have proof

That we’re living out

These self-evident truths?

Chasing every rainbow

Seeking pots o’ gold

Position, wielding power

Winning love untold

The kid buying some candy

Eats all that they take

But too much of the sweet stuff

Leaves a stomach ache

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Good deeds have a bad side

Compassion can become a scandal

Hard hearts grasp for their gold

Hoarding all that they handle

Reaching out to the world

Makes us more self-aware

But unless we tend to our own

We’ll have nothing noble to share

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