ill-gotten blues

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ill-gotten blues
©2011 Robert Dodson

Wisdom is just another word for
knowing what to choose.
Knowing what isn't yours to lose
Can save you a case of ill-gotten blues.

Some want be used by you
Understepping their bounds in all they do
Others will sooner trample your face
as do anything for another of the human race?

As you strive to see who to be
seek the selfless self of he who is one as three.
As you strive to see how to be
seek the way of he who is one as three.
As you strive to see why to be
seek the cause of he who is one as three.

A clear case of mistaken mis-identification
the bellows of war round the notion of nation...
One who would be the decider, provider and yes-we-can-er...
revealed themselves as just another in the long line of liars.

I wanna know the men in the shadows and
I need to see them for who they are...
as our planet rushes headlong through changes (don't you feel it?)
the scale and scope so far beyond all we thought far beyond before.

As you strive to see where to be
seek the place of he who is one as three.
As you strive to see when to be
seek the hour of he who is one as three.
As you strive to see who to be
seek within you that which IS him who is one as three.

Wisdom is just another word for
knowing what to choose.
Knowing what isn't yours to lose
Can save you...  save you a case of ill-gotten blues.