With a Smile (a poem)

Poetry by Oz
Music by VNStudios(Another Lonely Sunrise)

With a Smile

Soft, baby faced, kind
burning with hate
Shackling your mind
to a grate
with a smile

For a while
the lies you believe
and you try to achieve
that Hollywood ideal
Although you can't feel
why and so you die knowing
internal confusion halts growing
The endless creative force
forever altering the course

Do this, do that
I'll tell you how to act
To read and write, to get a job
become a snotty social hob nob
If you're black I'll make you white
If you're shy you just ain't right
Supposedly logical sensible conclusions
are really the product of mass delusions

Red or yellow, bronze or tan
Loud or Quiet, Girl or Man
Liberal, Conservative, Happy or Sad
Solitary, Social, Normal or Mad
None of them though are Just
Good or Bad
If you think otherwise,
you're truly Mad

Follow the law
go to combat, until you fall
down hard, bruised and bloody
broken and muddy
and then get up again
Just thinkng of when
you'll die and be redeemed
as you are beamed
into nirvana
Don't you wanna
die
Rowing and rowing
your boat down the stream
you teem with hate
for all the times fate
and God have left you alone
no trail and no home
The gale force wind blows
the force of the machine throws
your mean bean
without pity or love
into the trash
to be mashed and smashed

Merrily, merrily, merrily you smile
because life is just a dream
why don't you teem
with hate and confusion
over the rape and abusing
that was done to you
Or maybe you're confusing
the smiles once again for kindness
You walk into th'battlefield with blindness
It's hard, this charred, splintered existense
using talk and dreaming to distance
ourselves from the pain
And we strain
just to breathe
But its time to wake up now
no more cow towing
to unrealistic expectations, time to take a vacation
Stop talking, thinking, living in our head
lets face it, sometimes we wish we were dead

Just to get those phony smiles
out of our heads.

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[TheIntoxikie]

What a masterpiece. This is one of my favourite poems ever, if i remember right I came across it because it was posted as an attachment to Cody Webbers "death, decay & windy days" so I flicked through some more of your poems and I was just wowed.

This piece,, I love the gritty truthful outlook on life from it, very philosophical.

[ozjthomas]

@TheIntoxikie cool glad you like it =)

[ninapoetry]

Thank you.

I'm fascinated and repulsed by those phone smiles. I think everyone has one.

[ozjthomas]

YW, and thank you as well.

[VNStudios]

Thanks for using our song!

~VNSTUDIOS~

[ozjthomas]

Thank you for making it =)

[sammyxgoose]

@SummerDaddysGal sssssssssssummer!!

[SummerDaddysGal]

This is.. Amazing... and its true.. sometimes i wish i was dead.. mostly cause of "phony smiles" this is just an amazing poem.

[Jadabh3]

not for me

[XoXsimaXoX]

wow

that is

amazing

ur a natural

and really impressed !