Frailty
How I wish to drink the wine of joy with you
feel the brush of fingertips upon my cheek
to spread a picnic feast within the wilderness
what lies within my heart to plainly speak
But raised was I upon a planets prison
and to will of others made was I a slave
with eyes cast to the floor and verbal beating
the road to fear of man did abuse pave
I want to run barefoot on green grass carpets
and prowl the mountain ranges like a cat
wing my way upon the trails ridges
and know no violence will me to attack
Twelve times faced I death and yet I'm living
I've escaped intent and accidents of chance
like those who consider all unforeseen occurrence
that the unwary can be caught by circumstance
I've made my way this far only by reason
four reasons gave the choice for me to live
I've had no time to consider my emotion
nor thought about a need for love did give
I've given vent to mans neglect and violence
for no different do I find inself my own
when I look at the reflection in the mirror
no change to our past can we atone
All those who consider justice and affliction
the pathways of thought and all her tracks
many millennia's of history have we written
the investigation of the goodness mankind lacks
The ever present war within our nature
affected by our fight or flight of reason
the stake to posterity is high and costly
far to often we are weak to logics treason
For all have fallen down before true glory
not a single one hasn't failed his own thought
for everyone has placed for himself standards
and in his own failures is he caught
For in Justice , Love and Wisdom there is Power
in the cosmos is ordered laws that we can see
but not one single human who is existing
can keep the perfection of Love flawlessly
So occasionally I will have to ask for your forgiveness
and hope you love enough to set me free
for even if I think I might know better
I have found in all of us this frailty
I want to tell you I am stronger when you are near me
I have found in you something that in myself I lack
I never knew that getting any closer
would provide the desire to return back
COPYRIGHT © 2012 C. Michael Miller
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