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When You Leave
Get ahead every time you're able
take the finer things from the table.
Take your gains take your profits
steal your own cause from those who lost it.
Run every kind of game you can bleed,
you'll still have nothing when you leave.
Put your faih in all your gold cards
mention them proudly when things go hard.
Fake your records fake your facts
take another page from your income tax.
Score on everything you can get for free
you'll still have nothing when you leave.
The sun still shines above the dark clouds
Birds in the sky all have a nest house.
Get out and look about from mountain to sea
there's no simple things that you won't need
and you'll still have nothing when you leave.
anger, bitterness... a hatred of the 'shallow kingdom'... sounds almost like a sixties protest song written for now! good job! eric
You can say that again. That was a great message. Good poem.
Dear Eric, It is for poems like this I included you in my poem. Brilliant my friend! I couldn't agree with you more, or write about it as well as you did. Love, aly
My final comment for u for the day....SMilesz. Liked this one too...indeed, the style of ending each stanza in the same way emphasizes much of this theme and title.... How true...we have nothing when we come...jus a naked baby....and we will have nothing when we leave...just a husk and lingering name to add to each absence of being... Evoking work, Eric. Smilesz. HAve a nice day. Do inform me of your new postings... Ciaos.
I enjoyed the wording in this piece and the stanzas ending on the same line...my favorite lines were : "Put your faith in all your gold cards, mention them proudly when things go hard." Thank you for reading my poetry entitled, "Masterpiece"...
I LOVE this one!!! My wife jokingly told me this one day, so I told her, if I can't take it with me then I decided I'm not going! LOL Anyway, this is great!