"Keep Looking Until Something Good Looks Back"

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    I forgot I wrote this, it doesn't seem to be my style, but when I read it it was signed and copyrighted by me so I must be the author,,,I guess my style is variable

    "Keep Looking Until Something Good Looks Back"

    Look all around

    Look, just keep looking

    See anything beautiful

    Anything sweet or nice

    Please you tell me what it

    Is that you see

     

    I see manmade islands

    Interrupting rivers and seas

    There is progress and filth

    Sleaze and hate

    Reflections of the environment

     

    My father told me

    That if I cannot win change quickly

    Then I must use patience as my

    Handmaiden

     

    For change is unchanging

    And hope can only be denied

    If it’s nature is

     

    So look around

    Do not stop looking

    Until you like what

    Returns your gaze

     

     

    Keep writing til somehow

    I get it right.

     

    © Sam Hyde

      01-24-11

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    Marsink commented on "Keep Looking Until Something Good Looks Back"

    01-31-2011

    I would imagine the axiom, 'we see what we want to see', does not apply. As a race of people we can see the results of what we have put into the world and our individual lives; hopefully that image refelcted back will not be our own!! A great write full of the need for hope and accountability! Applause Building!!
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    StandingBear commented on "Keep Looking Until Something Good Looks Back"

    01-30-2011

    Nice style Cutbanksam. Gotta go through the bad to get to the good, it's just the way it happens. *Keep Looking Until Something Good Looks Back* ... holds no punches... Great write!
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