Waking Poem a Poem on the Philosophy Essay

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Waking Poem

A Poem on the Philosophy of Waking: Rhythm of the Morning

Ring ding dong

And the night that seemed so long

That stretched out like a knife

That was darker than my life

Is vanished like a dream

And I'm awakened by the scream

Alarming every time

And I cannot seem to find

The fingers to the button or a way to stop the sudden and never-ending bludgeon of the clock that keeps right on like that energizer jawn so I grab it off the stand and I take it in my hand

And now I'm carrying my time and now everything is mine the morning and the shine that takes me from my place into a higher space where I pray that every day could be exactly right this way that I get up with the sun and know that I'm a be the one to gathering up no moss to bounce from every loss like Aristotle I'm the model of the political animal and everything's in front of me it's up to me to take it all but every single morning are the same old questions horning up in my head like hornets buzzing up against my eyelids to ask just what I'm doin' that can save us all from ruin or even just to help myself to take my life from o
ff the shelf t make the secnds ticking dwn wrth smething mre than just the sund f clicking, clacking, passing, packing leaving, traveling, seeing, attacking taking, breaking, making and frsaking and all ther things yu can nly d after waking like the picture f the slaves frm their shackles breaking at the back f Plat's caves in a prisn f their making a prisn f perceptin a prisn f the mind metal arund their legs and metal chains t bind their necks t keep frm mving s all the while prving t knw f nthing mre than the shadws cast befre the fires at their backs t the wall that marks the tracks f a humanity persisting while all the while they're just existing and nthing mre t say but just like every day hw I'm blinded by the light that try as thugh I might never cmes the wakeup where my eyesight desn't breakup s that I struggle first t see while I knw it's nt just me cause Plat says f the man living in his cave all he knws fr all his life is hw t be a slave s finally when he's free when at last he can awake

the light that breaks int his eyes is mre than he can take

but every mrning that I get up

I rub my eyes….....

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