Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Ego by Stephen Jarrell Williams


EGO

None of us
saw
what the world was coming to

we had ideas and even visions
but
nothing like the slap and roar of the end

children no longer born
women no longer loved
sea and sky no longer blue

earth, wood, and stone
falling
on every man so full of himself.


Published in protestpoems.org- December 24, 2011

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