Before Forever

[seeyat]

We are as beautiful as we wish ourselves to be

We are never what others see

We are the images we create of the world into which we’re hurled

The pages of this life unfurled

We are creation and destruction through choice

We are one voice

Screaming so silently to a universe unwilling

The sound it hears, the cries of killing

We find our lives in pursuit of death without care

Pleasure and amusement with passions laid bare

God’s hand cannot be found in all our ways

As he watches down from far above, counting days

Into this sweet dissidence with each other

Expecting something of reaction as a brother

Within our minds we see ourselves as gods

As slow we see each passerby and nod

Cannot our hearts awaken more to love

Untold defiance from a silent dove

Where bitterness and hatred find a source

Such tempting possibilities in course

Clear to see the days as they unravel

The miles wear the roads on which we travel

So soon we must be found in each endeavor

As we must find our way before forever