Goodbye Cruel World

A man may walk abroad and no more see the sky than if he walked under a shed. - Thoreau

there's a small plane

way up in the sky

i wish i was on it

surely you must know why

i need to be lifted above a shrug and a sigh

i'm tired of having to cry and die

in a fallen world spinning a lie

confusing me for some whole other guy

thank god heaven is still nigh

not something anyone can buy

Author's Note

"As it is, each takes us up into the serene heavens, whither the smallest bubble rises as surely as the largest, and paints earth and sky for us. Any sincere thought is irresistible." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

kind of a dismal slant Pete ... seems a sharp contrast to Thoreau's words ... and then we have Pink Floyd's video .. horribly tragic in closing ... I don't know brother ... your poem and presentation has created enough tension in me to think about all this ... with a huge desire to have a positive outcome .. in my being ... so ... well done I guess ... it's powerful and impacts me now
E.

[Pete]

sometimes we have to be shocked to consciousness. sometimes i think we've all grown numb, callous and cold. as you well know by now, music is my refuge and escape. i wasn't being literal but you get the idea. the goings on in this world leave so much to be desired. even thoreau sought refuge alone and away from society in the woods. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." he wrote. my faith, too, sustains me.

[Einstein Noodle]

loe that brother ... "enough things which he can afford to let alone" ... ahhhhhhhh ... the whispering pines of the mountains .... ohhhhhhh the crisp clean air that blows across the plains .. ohhhhhhh ahhhhhhhh ;))))))))))))))))))) such good stuff my friend!