If truth were a score,
you wouldn't need three fingers,
for the books of lore
over which your heart lingers.
Your naiveté is unbecoming
for a person of your age.
You're more suited for slumming
then the vocation of sage.
It remains to be seen
how many times you're wrong.
And like cheese turning green,
you've ignored me too long.
I won't follow along
on your madman's plot.
I won't follow the throng
while you let your mind rot.
If you could stop your shouting
long enough to blink,
you might fault your touting
and then you'd have to think.
When I tell you that you're wrong
give me half a chance.
And I'll listen to your song
though I'm familiar with the dance.
It's not wrong to have convictions,
and not wrong to believe.
(Though I see yours as inflictions,
that you'd do well to leave.)
But you can have opinions,
just as well as I
It just really irks my pinions
when you refuse to ask why.
The why is the truth
and the why is your clue
so it wouldn't hurt to sleuth
and to doubt a little, too.
The truth is definetly out there,
maybe further than you think
and you'd improve your fare
if you'd swim instead of sink. |