Answering The King Of Fools

Answering The King Of Fools

By John Kaniecki

There you go singing your sad song

About God in glory and all that went wrong

In the middle of the end of all

You send out your sweet bird call

The hawks are circling with the doves

And you’re the one everybody loves

Lookie here Bob’s got another rhyme

Trying once more to define the time

Say in all your searching for salvation

Have you ever reached you destination?

Once you held Jesus as savior and Lord

But you have traded in your sweet reward

I got treasures in heaven piling high

I suggest humility sir give it a good try

I think back to our friend Woody Guthrie

Singing with Peter Seeger wild and free

When in living red the truth was said

And for freedom’s cause blood was shed

Seems like the world has taken a great loss

Cause Zimmy looks like you dropped your cross

Now is not the time to be lukewarm

These are but the whisks of the coming storm

You’ve never heard of me you don’t know my name

But I live in all men’s hearts just the same

How could you look at this world of pain
And not understand that God went insane

Hypocrite, do you know the definition brother?

It’s saying one thing and doing another

That about includes all but the Chosen Few

They ain’t on cable t.v. you know that’s true

If you want to be perfect give all to the poor

Love your enemy that means no war

I went to heaven once it was mighty grand

I saw things that nobody could understand

He who weeps shall reap joy in tomorrow

God knows we had an ample share of sorrow

So I am reaching out you’ll hear it in your mind

See what I see says the man who was born blind

I’ve known great hatred but it made me kind

We’re marching ahead leaving none behind

Pretty soon some of us are learning a new song

That’ll happen after everything goes wrong

By then I’ll be gone to my home in the sky

Love is the answer I suggest you give it a try

And don’t lean on Neil he’s a broken staff

But he’s better than the rest at least half a laugh

Alas the river is meandering and flowing slow

Have I said anything you don’t already know?

Forsake your idols clever creations of gold

Refuse to obey just don’t do as you are told

Release the songs you hide in your black book

It’s time for the Revelation take a deep look

Our enemy is only found inside of the mind

The best cure is common decency and being kind

Truly minstrel of madness be more forgiving

Some of down here have to work for a living

I learned to embrace my deep and dark fears

While stocking the paints on the shelves of Sears

The prophets are all shot up with Thorazine

Can you be honest can you speak to me clean?

What have you heard and what have you seen?

I not trying to cause a ruckus or some scene

Now I’m sitting here waiting for the invitation

Let’s pop the corks on the bottles of celebration

Round and round

The merry-go-round

In the abundance of words

No truth is found

Once you were young full of dreams and hopes

Now you sing before the kings and the popes

Do you do it for money; do you do it for fame?

Do you have some scapegoat to cast the blame?

You may be a giant standing tallest of the tall

But compared to my Jesus you are nothing at all

Save precious and special in His wonderful eyes

But we’ve come full circle and back to your lies

In the future your clever words will be cliché

Just like every dog seems to have their day

I could write these words of indefinite length

My fingers are fresh and my spirit far from faint

But Bennet needs me to work and earn my pay

Regardless I said the words that I happened to say

Don’t be angry with me and please don’t be sore

You’re an enigma and this poem a metaphor

If you happened to knock for entrance on my door

You would just be like those who came before

But please stay away in your galaxy of stars

In a world where they sing and play guitars

I seek not fortune I seek not a measure of fame

I have no desire for the fire known as the game

Cause I have come the learn the flame will burn

You do what you want that is not my concern

It was not I who wrote these complex rules

All this is, is Answering The King Of Fools

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