This Poem was Submitted By: JAY D. SAVITZ On Date: 2000-12-04 22:03:32 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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CONGEALIALITY

The public has a right to know The way the public feels The bell, it tolls for us, although Some say it rings or peals There are questions that are burning And for answers we are yearning Yet opinions keep on turning And we don't know how to feel What is right and what is wrong? Are we weak or are we strong? Is time too short, is time too long? Ask the public to reveal Who should we make the president? And should we help the discontent? Is our money wisely spent? Just ask us and we'll see Do we help the very poor? Buy vcr's or find a cure? Give up the ship, or still endure? It's up to you and me But we're all so full of greed What we don't have is what we need It's our ego's that we feed To hell with others To give to you is to take from me Your servitude, it sets me free What's good for you, is bad for me Just ask our mothers So we talk of our compassion And of sympathy we feel Yet when it's time to put our cash in Into our dens we steal Perhaps it's time for us to change For there's more to us than we Priorities to rearrange A little less for me It's time that we now understand Helping you is good for me It's time that we must take a stand And set the others free So to listen to the public Is to listen to yourself And I fear that what we hear, is our own greed For the public's me, the public's you The very many, the very few And just remember, if I am cut, then we all bleed So the public has a right to know The way the public feels And if the public does not start to grow The universe congeals 

Copyright © December 2000 JAY D. SAVITZ

Additional Notes:
I call this a poem for "mankind". These come into my conciousness when some event "erupts" my emotions. In this case, I was in Florida, watching the evening news. A child had drowned and the body had just been found. As the father turned to walk away, a reporter shoved a microphone in his face and said, "tell us how you feel". The father, devastated, tried to move away, and this asshole reporter yelled "the public has a right to know how you feel"!


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