As I see it !!! As I have heard it !!!

 

You say !, you have written !, “ I do not lie ! ”.

On many, many an occasion, I have stood by,

and listened to many – over the years – a lying word.

In all honesty ?, you cannot deny this is what I have heard.

 

Where is it coming from ?, habit ?, a need to survive

a past ?, what you need to hide from ?, a method to stay alive ?

It continues to remain within, as today harbors the past

that should be buried  – not so, for today it cast

 

it’s troubled shadow all over my day, my hour

over my heart, my spirit – my soul continues to tower.

I look into, I see the future, – after fifty three years –

for you, then, now and tomorrow nothing but tears.

 

These words, from me, I realize, feel like spears

and you want not, filling your eyes, your ears.

 
 

B. J. “A” 2

May 18^th 2006