When a life
Is all but spent
Should one reflect
Perhaps repent
Or are the things
We’ve done and said
Unchangeable
So find instead
That we accept
It’s just the way
That life played out
And day by day
Resign ourselves
To not being late
For time it follows
That is our fate
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
As it unfolds
What is on show
The greatest crime
We’ll never know
Shown just what
We’re meant to see
Given a choice
But not for free
What they take
Is more than thought
A new future
Is being taught
And it’s coming…
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
We found ourselves
In crazy times
Thoughts & words
Were deemed crimes
But in that way
We’ve always been
Told what is right
And what’s obscene
But best these days
To keep your thought
Inside your head
So you’ll be taught
That it’s best
To pretend
In case you find
You do offend
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
Photography by K L Wicks ~ Hawks Tor, Cornwall
It’s usually more
Than we would ask
Of ourselves
A particular task
One which robs you
Of your will
It shuts you down
And yet you still
Believe somewhere
Inside your brain
Thinking we
Can take the strain
But for how long?…
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
They tell you what
Is coming next
To lay the scene
And the context
Warning some
Not to resist
While some decide
Who can exist
The tables are turned
Freedoms taken
And to the core
Society shaken
Now a quickly
Changing world
A different future
Does unfold
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
People today
So filled with rage
But only if
They have a stage
Showing off
Their tiny mind
In some strange way
Hoping to find
A kind of release
From all the strain
The hurt in mind
And all the pain
But thought it takes
Not through fear
And time will tell
If they will hear
Reason
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
It’s something I
Try to define
How they make you
‘Fall in line’
People shaping
Is what they do
Programs set
For me and you
For social order
That’s what they say
But it’s comply
You must obey
In their schemes
They did find
Just how to control
Your will and mind
But to what end?
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
Shame on them
The ones who are
Just not normal
So very far
From what we need
To see and be
They just don’t like
Our unity
It holds a threat
We just can’t hide
Their plan of conquer
And divide
Is clearly plain
And seems so set
But still I think
There may be yet
Time…
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
Another life
Before this time
It seems as though
It was not mine
A different chapter
In a book
That once you read
And now mistook
As just a film
Stuck on rewind
A faded episode
That stays in mind
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
Caught we were
In time and space
Between that rock
And a hard place
But what they say
Is take a few
Sleep on it
You’ll feel like new
But they can’t know
That in the deep
The mind can’t rest
Even in sleep
So round the thoughts
Are doomed to go
Until the way
Does think to show
Itself…
(c) K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
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