One grey day in the future
Little Jim ran to his ma
Saying, “tell me the story
Of the dust from the stars.”
“Liquid it was – ” she said,
“Smoke that was pure.
Prussian oceans
Blue skies – strong and sure.
“The earth was all water
On dust – now my words,
Only they remember –
Imagine a blue world.
“Then somehow someone
Fell in love with grey.
Forgot what blue meant
And we went astray.
We sold what was given
And we killed the rain
And in place of the oceans
Scattered ashes of pain.
“Once the earth was all water
On dust – now my words
Will have to remember –
Imagine a blue world.”
Little Jim, he cried back
To the ghosts of the past.
And we stand here listening –
Do we hear him? Will this last?
Do we still love the blue
Much more than the grey?
‘Cause that grey day in the future
Is not so far away.
The water is dying
To dust – and our words
Are all that is left
To save our blue world.
9 comments:
damn...
this is good.
we'll make this into song someday..
water song..sheesh...dat was a disaster.
but it was a beautiful song.
wasnt it?
yes the song was bewtiphool....
but even though it was a disaster it didn't matter. disasters are only disasters when they matter. :)
after all, life is full of care, like a desert bare.
very well written. I only wish we could take all of the CFC's we're creating here and send them to Mars and terra form it's atmosphere.
if people want to go for free, they talk to me and i either give them a pass or put them on my guestlist. By the way, are you familiar with a recent article about our efforts to curb CFC's, and how the alternates actually increased polution?
the water song is beautiful.
shut up with that bare care crap.
i like this.
its flowy.
i agree... its flowly... and rythmic...
and xiamaze, the song wasnt a disaster, the performance was...
and can we all just put the *life is full of care* episode behind us please...
i'm just glad i didnt play...
Very nice.
What came first, this poem, or the blog name?
All part of the process, humans can't alter stuff in the long run,"There were seven cities before"....
If you have endless reserves of time, you can read a few more of my repetitive compositions, worthless entirely though they be...
the blog title came first. i didn't know what the phrase meant back then. much later i found a possible interpretation which i used in the death of a world post. and the phrase somehow fitted into this post so i used it although it means a completely different thing here from what it used to.
i don't really want this particular meaning to stay. it's too "oh. ok so that's what it means" mundane. cliche. stupid.
and i really don't want this post to change the way people interpreted my blog title. maybe i shouldn't have used it this way, but, what the hell, it fit.
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