"CLOUD NINE"

I hope, that I never rise high and end up on Cloud Nine!
I'll keep one foot, on firm ground....at least most of the time!

For up on Cloud Nine, where there aren't any cares,
THINKING is forbidden! All ideas NIL....except theirs!

So super-superior and pious, with a very long list,
Of all of the babies, that they have kindly kissed!

Deaf and blind, to all of the worldly abuses!
Passing on mistakes and making excuses!

Oblivious, to the disgusting carnage below!
If there are atrocities, they don't want to know!

Their Holy Ways can be so exploitive, for....
They use GUILT, to fill their coffers more!

Classify themselves as Saints and the Chosen, too!
In so many cases, we know it's not true!

Actions and not just words will relate!
Are we worthy, or do we just compensate?

The "Sacred Show" must go on and on!
One day....the false faces will all be gone!

Our true colours will be on display!
Then, what will we have to say?

If TRUTH should surface, so many would fall!
They'd weep and wail, at the Holy Wall!

And then they would return, to deceit and sin!
Back to Cloud Nine, assured that they WIN!

I'd better notice, when the little sparrow does fall!
Or, I might fall off, my own stone wall!

I can't close my eyes and ears.....ignore the alarm!
I must use my pen, to condemn the harm!

Pain and suffering, here on our troubled earth,
I must oppose....and try to prove my worth!

For if I can prick a conscience or two,
And if a few others try to do it, too!

We can contribute, in our own, small way,
Make a world, where all can work and play!

Not on Cloud Nine, but right here,
Good things can happen, year after year!

Pauline Banning
P-1358-98-D18

It is not for me to decide, what others do, in their daily lives...but, I
am very aware, of what I MUST DO....and I know, that Cloud Nine is not the
place for ME.