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A Lesson
by Jerry P. Bolton → (All Poetry by Jerry P. Bolton)
Saturday, July 27, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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 Midday is as black as midnight,
Silence so loud it hurts your ears.
Do not ask your maker for light,
Dark and quiet comes from your jeer.

Leave your gods and deities be,
Beg not for a godly way out.
You are the cause of this, you know,
Each man his prison brings about.

If it is paradise you seek,
Try living your life so it fits.
A light will shine, words will be spoke,
And out of this jam you will get.

©April 14, 2019 / Jerry Pat Bolton


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 Reviews of "A Lesson"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 28, 2019
Now that's a lesson if I have read one! I think you've nailed how to live in one short poem. Let us hope that no one ever has to face the reality of the first stanza. But I believe, many already have when they went to their death without the promises they were told.

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on July 27, 2019
. . . and a lesson will be taken for this insightful poem. I especially like the barbed comment:

You are the cause of this, you know,
each man his prison brings about.

So true yet still needs to be said.

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on July 27, 2019
Excellent write and thoughts. Your 2nd stanza, in particular, speaks volumes.

Reviewed on July 27, 2019
This sounds like the solution so many seek. Your wordsmithing is fabulous in this, one of your many best! Hugs!

Love ya!

Jane


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