What causes a heart to quake
The earth to jut meadows into mountains
Men live to conquer
What causes a muse to erase
All that takes place before and after its rising
And, still remain unchanged
Like puppets that talk
We are what we are
Vultures taunting the weak and dying
With marketing minds
Infiltrating insecurities with lies
Of a culture content in creating its own demise
As beauty outpaces wisdom
And, slowly erases the need for age
And, the lessons hidden beneath a gray head of hair
What causes a turnabout
To halt the feet as if a block of concrete
Composed of a thousand epiphanies
What cause the heart to hear
Is it the mind or the soul
Or, something else all together
This, my puppet mouth just spoke:
I am what I am.
Cut my ropes!