Smoke Rise

Smoke Rise     8/16/2013

Sometimes I actually smile

Now that I understand

That all of this

Is just a joke

And always will be. 

I am not buying the stories

And I am not taking the cheese

Because it all leads to something

That I don’t need.

They can knock me around

And they can throw me away

Forgetting that I was here

Or ever lived at all.   

Because I have finally seen myself

For what I really am

And if you can see yourself

Then you should know

All that you should change.

But I am not going

To hang my head

And I am not going

To say I am sorry. 

I am still here

And I am not moving

Not for this

And not for that. 

This isn’t the first time

And it may not be the last

But it’s as good a time as any

To stand straight

And tell the truth. 

You can see it coming

From a million miles away

That nothing will ever survive

If the good give up

And all walk away. 

I can see the smoke

Rising in the distance

And the fire shall come with it

To every street, and corner. 

The dumb make excuses

But I have heard enough,

Of that for me

Because I didn’t start this charade

But I know how it ends.

Others can lie all day

But it won’t change a thing

Because truth is bigger than fiction

And it shall consume them all. 

I laugh and shake my head,

But the worst is yet to come

Because diseased animals

Will always lash out

And kill everything they can. 

Turn it off

And love who you can

The ones who remember

Right by your side. 

Good is all around us

And the good have nothing to fear

Not if they remain worthy

And true to the end.