POEM: Glass of Water

[pert -5]

Glass of Water
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I went out into the ocean
And all the stars fell down
Floating here in this moment
Why won't the world just drown?
I can not shake the feeling
That everything has got to change
So let's just take this moment
In time to rearrange
The light behind our eyes
And all the stars fell down
People running over people
The light was just a shade
And it's growing bigger, deeper
The stars all fall down

I was left inside the ocean
And all the stars fell down
Life was living without me
It turned my world around
The fish that people sample
Are nothing like the human race
So can you not see so clearly?
I am not talking out. of. place.

When the sand is flowing over even higher than the Sun
We are One in disguise as another and it has only just begun
And the fear and the hate that we breed is disease on our eyes
No compromise, we must return to

Something simple in the ocean
And all the stars came down
Rippling with mass-delusion
Science takes it's toll on me
And I have eyes that see the light
But I fear I will never see
The joy of beauty in love
Pure reality.......... ....... .. pure re...alll...itt......y

[S. Earl Martin]

Very interesting poem. I will read more.

[pert -5]

Thanks Earl.

The line "the stars fell down" is a jab at how narcissistic people are, at least here in the US.  Everyone thinks that they are the center of everything.  So, as down is a movement in relation to one's perception, the concept that the stars would fall "down" highlights that sentiment.  Now we are each subjectively the center of our own individual universe.  But objectively, we are just dots upon a dot that's in a solar system of dots, itself being just a dot in a dot.

The final line of the poem (viz. ".......... ....... .. pure re...alll...itt......y") is directly inspired by the Daniel Keyes novel "Flowers for Algernon."  The protagonist of that story is a mentally retarded man who has his intellect artificially augmented via a science procedure and he becomes super genius.  Unfortunately for him though the effect is only temporary and he begins to "descend" back to his original IQ.  This is starkly illustrated through glimpses of his journal entries.  Towards the end his entries become gibberish, interspersed with brief phrases of "lucidity."  

[S. Earl Martin]

Yeah I read that book before twice. I see the relation. Cool!