The Truth @ 4am

Morning All or at least to any of the silly people who are up at 4am in the morning on Saturday like me !

I guess this is more a reflection than a statement .... Why are the best moments of clarity and reflection at 4am in the morning ?

Oh well, while I am up and talking to you all I may as well share a poem that I wrote not too long ago. Once again I'd love to hear what everyone thinks about it.

Cheers & Remember ... " There Are No Orginary Moments "

Make It Go Away

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I turned on the TV to watch the evening news

It was all about the evil things that we say and do

Wars in foreign lands, assults next door

And all about political greed

I just couldn't take it anymore.

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I couldn't take it

Oh No

It had to go away,

So I turned off my TV and went about my day.

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I turned on my radio to hear some happy tunes.

To lift my spirit and free the mind

It seemed a smart thing to do.

But all the tunes were about disrespect

They were about racism, sex and doom

They brought me down with a hard brutal thud

And I just couldn't take it anymore.

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I couldn't take it

Oh No

It had to go away,

So I turned of the radio and went about my day

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I decided to take a walk

Under the bright southern stars

To feel a breeze against my cheeks

And to breath in deep the freshness of the night air.

I decided to forget the horrors of the TV news,

I decided to forget the disrespecting radio tunes

I decided I couldn't take it anymore.

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I couldn't take it

Oh No

It had to go away

So I turned off and went about my day.

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But the wars were still fought in the foreign lands

And the assults still happened next door

The radio still spread the word of disrespect and doom

I had had enough

I had made it go away.

I had turned my back on humanity

And gone about my day.

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Rwanda, Bosnia, Timor, Zimbabwe

It didn't go away.

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Andrew Swansson

Copyright 2008