Tag: Poetry

We Are Highly Evolved Creatures (The Light Upon My Feet)

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There is chaos in the wind
I want to know if you are my friend
But I ask you, your head turns
If a monkey comes to me and says I evolved from him
I will steal a bannana from him
I want to hold you close
And I want you to hold my heart
And tell me we will never partI can’t live today
Because on the news today they said the world is going to end tomorrow
I can’t live tomorrow
Because I probably won’t be here

We are highly evolved creatures
Some much is going on
Some much we want to know
We are like inch-worms moving one step at a time on the concrete
I would think since we are highly evolved creatures we could live for today
But we have a hard time looking forward to see where our feet are planted
Everything in this life we take for granted
Anytime our sparkle goes away in our hands, we get scared

God promises light on my feet
Not a crystal ball in the future

(C) Carly Wiggins 2006

Iceberg In Your Heart

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There is an iceberg in your heart
And it’s melting slowly and quietly
But let it dissolve
Inside are the keys to your heart

You have a lead leg
And when you use your hands for talking
They glue together
But let it be heavy
Inside the lead is a motor

You act like you have it all together
But you know better
You use big vocabulary
You use bright facial expressions
But I know better

Let it go
And let it out
You are just a rope tied
To your childhood tree house
But you have been too tied to go up there and visit again

(C) Carly Wiggins 2018