Behold

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Matthew

Changed and rearranged by things that I behold

Sifted then lifted and burned to purest gold

So collectively affected by the popular and old

On strings like puppet things only doing what I’m told

Like me all see that we were free but now are sold

To the system are we slaves losing wisdom growing cold

Change us now.

‘Amender of men’ be so bold

As to stir the many sleepers and arouse the blinded fold

To see the face we traded for comfort and for gold

And upon it lay our eyes till we become what we behold

Filed under: Poetry

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5 Responses to “Behold”

  1. Lisa, on April 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm Said:

    Beautiful!

  2. jenroush, on April 21st, 2008 at 5:32 pm Said:

    This a great poem!

  3. carolyn, on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 am Said:

    yay! my favorite….
    a new matthew poem. the thing i hope for nearly every time i spy a new matthew ray post. [sigh]

    ok, my favoritest part…

    “To see the face we traded for comfort and for gold
    And upon it lay our eyes till we become what we behold’

    wow. i can soooo relate to that right now.

    makes me want to go write a poem. i don’t know… i may have forgotten how. been twittering too much ;-) .

  4. imoansnj, on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm Said:

    ilovethis!!!

  5. Rachel Kaiser, on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm Said:

    P.Matty writes poetry???
    Very good!

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