Fish Eyes

Fish Eyes 9/18/2013

If you are told you are perfect

Then what will you learn?

And if you are told you are good

How will you change?

There is nothing magic

In how I look

Or where I am from

But that is the lie

Told over and over again. 

Every man is different

And no two days are the same

However nobody really wants us to think

But only to comply. 

If we fail

Then we must think

And if we succeed

Then we must be careful.

The struggle makes you stronger

But if you think you are special

Then you become both weak

And foolish. 

I have heard it all

And I know what it means

As everyone tries to remind you

That you are down

And they are up.

Because it isn’t fun

If you can’t hurt another

And it isn’t a victory

If they don’t know.

But if you are intelligent

And if you are wise

Then you should need nothing

To show who you are. 

And the powerful need not a title

Or honors

To remind them of what is true

And what is good. 

But isn’t that life

That it is rotten and dead

Corrupt, putrid

And dead as a fish.

No, this is not enough

And it never was before

Because we are far from home

And will always need more.

Words are words

And money distracts the mind

As we seek immortality

In all the wrong ways.

A dead fish

Flows down the river

And a dead man

Sleeps in the dust.

But if we live

We can choose

And if we choose

We can live forever.