Ordinary People

The waters and rivers flow The winds blow Grasses and trees grow Time passes by slow While we as ordinary people Still consistently remain shallow We as ordinary people dictate our faiths One day, one day It will be too late To educate the illiterate On matters that are delicate Such as environmental pollution Or systematic scientific evolution Exposed with political corruption Or all kinds of discrimination Hindering those with dedication and ambition How about closing the doors On all this unjustly wars Leaving them to be dealt accordingly with the law Instead of luring life right into the hands of deaths claw But we are ordinary people With binary feelings Always concealing What is blatantly revealing One day You will find yourself really lost Like an abandoned speckle of dust Because of someone that you trust You'll only be able to shake your head in utter disgust One day In your life you will finally taste The things you left behind to waste So hurry up right now and make haste Before your breasts sag down to your waist Or your thoughts crumble into a wasteful paste One day You will make a card payment Either in full or in instalments That you will totally resent When you receive your bank statement Wishing you had made a better investment Realising you’ve been befooled at the moment One day Out you shall speak Sick or not sick, weak or not weak Suddenly showing strenght stronger than a brick Wondering if life on you is playing its usual trick As the clocks move on with each and every single tick One day Like all the living you will die Mothers will moan and sigh As the watch you dissolve as you lie And some people for you will cry While others silently say goodbye For we are ordinary people With binary feelings Always concealing What is blatantly revealing So let’s all stand up in unity Preserve the last of our dignity Make changes glaring with productivity Perhaps then earth can breathe in infinity Copyright 2006 - Sylvia Chidi