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    Markings in the Cave
    Markings in the Cave
    Markings in the Cave
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    Markings in the Cave

    By Paul Tait

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    A volume of verse by critically acclaimed poet Paul Tait.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 24, 2016
    ISBN9781483561868
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      Book preview

      Markings in the Cave - Paul Tait

      Author

      The Self, the Ego, and the Soul

      Can you watch your love divide

      Can you watch your Self collide

      With the Ego and the Soul

      Each a part and yet aside

      Can you watch the old revive

      Can you watch today subside

      Into Paleolithic sub protocol

      Can the now and the then survive

      Can you sense the early warnings

      Can you watch without alarming

      The very fiber of your globe

      Join the march to end the siege aligning

      Can you?

      A Plate Full of Lies

      The interest charge on life at large

      Over spends the senior Self

      Our marketing of theory could be

      -Natural

      What have we got?

      Equating love with sex

      Leads to child abuse and

      Spiritual wrecks

      What have we got?

      A plate full of lies

      Drift

      Sometimes I am at a loss

      I sit staring at the paper

      Wondering if I should be

      Asking why

      My life leads my time

      Away

      From you

      Tomorrow frightens…

      Me? You?

      Everyone

      So much doubt

      Locking us up

      Pretending that we are safe

      When actually we are courting

      Death

      Doubt chains our hopes

      Doubt if we will ever be

      One

      Sometimes I am at a loss…

      Notes on a line

      Razor edge sharp enough

      To dull the tranquility

      Of stagnation

      Without changing the

      Color of the air

      Is there any justice?

      Perhaps

      I don’t suppose it is a matter

      Of great concern

      We are all at a loss

      Wondering why our time

      Leads us astray

      From us

      one flight out

      is there hope

      when all hope reveals

      it’s sham?

      is there life in the

      midst of deadly

      doubt?

      i stand alone

      yet surrounded

      there is no way out

      i chose this path

      dare i now

      complain?

      how and why

      one

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