Rigidity

Prostrated on the floor
Or delve in equations and swim
Rigidity is the weapon of mass destruction
Like an iron will that authority wraps
Its calloused hands around
To get the youth to bend to its will
Youth has energy and determination
It has hopes and dreams too
What it lacks is wisdom
And an open heart with eyes
That kind of heart that can distinguish when
You take two steps forward
When you take twenty steps back
If the heart opens for anything
It will kill and bleed for anything too
It will be a fatal lover
It will kiss a tower with a plane
Or caress some Iraqi town with bombs
Its lions for lambs
Over and over and over again
Repeat
Over and over and over again
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Over and over and over again
Repeat
Repeat
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Copyright of Christopher Alexander Simpson