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What You Have Done
by Dayvid Graybill → (All Poetry by Dayvid Graybill)
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Bankers and Traders in ivory towers. They all know what they've done.
What You Have Done Who's going to know what you have done? Do you remember where you went that night? The arrows in your head keep pointing to you Each evening when you close your office door. Can you shake the noise of your thoughts After the numbers in your cold heart subside? Whispers you hear loudly call you to that place They devised a plan to work the halls of shame. Your kids love you when you walk to the door You smile nakedly toward the swan in the lawn Brahms plays and dinner waits on the table Your pastor's wife sits in your place at the head. No it's not an angel in the corner at the ceiling Could it be a demon holding a smile in her hand? You have it all under control with Capital Hill With little concern you watch the game downstairs. You wake in the middle of the night walking outside To the sound of the wind singing in the trees A little movement catches your eye in the bush That snake is back and watching the apple in your hand. The Feds have you covered and you are in control You glance at the moon full and glowing red as blood Noon is lunch at the yacht club without your phone No one can hear as you watch waves against the shore Looking up the sky ripples and the ground moves Your feet are rock solid as the clubhouse folds to paper You are in control and the Feds have you covered You smile broadly as the world falls at your feet. Who's going to know what you have done? You can remember where you went that night They were right all along without anyone knowing The Feds had you covered and you are still in control! Dayvid Graybill © 2013

Reviewed by Michael True

Reviewed on September 11, 2014

Very provocative write. Your verses are strewn with clues without being overly vague or verbally condescending. I shall be following... M.True

Reviewed by David Young

Reviewed on January 25, 2014

The verse sing as you while relaying the message.

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on December 31, 2013

A most apt, sobering, and timely message, Dayvid. Corruption is rampant throughout the world, it seems. Love, peace, and Happy New Year to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on December 29, 2013

I'm immediately reminded of the Phil Collins song, "In the Air Tonight." I'm also thinking about how Andrew Carnegie changed in the end and became the first great benefactor while others like John D. Rockefeller, didn't.

We know what they did, but they were too big to fail so the Feds have their back. Great satire of the very real scenario. They need to be prosecuted, each and every one.

Ron

Reviewed by E Phillips

Rape, pillage, and plunder
Take many forms
The results are the same
Well done, Dayvid.

Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci

Reviewed on December 28, 2013

This write brings many things to light. Ah, but they will be divided and judged on day just like everyone else for what they have done.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater

Ponzi scheme lights the way to the prison chapel where Bernie Madoff and those evil types commit fraud upon the masses, money launderers and Wall Street manipulators that breed like rabbits fed greed pellets...black religion and politics is the new Ivory. Conscience kills and poetry outs it...Stout Mennonite Dark Lager is the new buzz...

Sixteen Penny Nails to Build a New Foundation,
Sage

Reviewed by Amber Moonstone

Dayvid
There is such conviction and deliberate truths within each line.
You pose a very good question "Whose going to Know what you have done?'
Hah, but there is a higher power that will!
Excellent poetry!
Peace love and light
Amber