WHEN...THEN - Poem

​When the dead speak louder than the living,
when the living don't listen to the timeless truth some dead also knew,
when we cast our own unforgiving shadows upon others,
when we only go through the motions about our own business,
when we have let life push us around by fear and lack of understanding,
when we do not listen to the laws of the universe,
when the mind becomes frail, biased and blind,
when the heart is shut and unbalanced,
then it is no wonder we shall suffer, and curse, and blame,
and relinquish shining our light, and avoid forging a new vision for a brighter day.