The Haunted House

 

 



Have YOU ever BEEN 



to A HAUNTED HOUSE?



bET YOU have!



a place you didn't understand



a place that frightened you



Did you SEE?



Did you HEAR?



Did you THINK?  



that you knew what was around the corner



think back to a time



to a place where you felt you had been before



but couldn't understand why you felt that way



De'ja' voo



Did you hear the noise?



Did you SEE the light? 



BATs flying way UP high



MONSTERS walking through a haze



coming 



CLOSER, CLOSER, CLOSER



Do  you SEE how it collides 



with R E A L I T Y?



We walk in a trance every day



No time for reflecting



Always in a hurry



Driving our weapons of destruction



faster, faster, faster



No time for KINDNESS



No time to GIVE



No time to FEEL



I saw a woman 



in the LAUNDROMAT



I heard her ask



how much it would cost to repair 



her TORN clothes



She looked like a deer 



caught in the CROSSFIRE



Was so worried about how much it cost 



no A F F E CT



i knew in my heart and soul



that she needed HELP



so i gave her a coin 



so she could get



her clothes repaired 



Didn't want her to worry about whether she could eat



And as i was about to leave discretely 



she asked said: WHO ARE YOU?



I was startled because i knew 



that she REMEMBERED



REMEMBERED



REMEMBERED



She knew that i understood 



HER PAIN



Because I was that woman 



in another LIFE



a VAGABOND, who lost HER way



due to circumstance



It is the people who can still feel the pain 



they are the ONES



who are still AWAKE



they haven't let their HEARTS 



fall asleep



they haven't let their souls be silenced  



or encased in SEA of DENIAL



We've all been in THE HAUNTED HOUSE



Blinded by our goals



JUST trying to make ends meet



But what about GOODNESS?



We forgot ABOUT goodness 



we forgot that goodness COUNTS



more than anything



more than MONEY, POWER, or FAME



GOODNESS counts!



don't forget



it's all that matters



don't forget



don't forget



It's all that really matters 



Just be good 



and try to do the RIGHT thing



and (s)he will forgive us 



if we mess up



just take the time 



just make the effort 



to do the right thing



and (s)he will forgive us



for (s)he knows that we are only human



and that we live in a haunted house



a house that makes us forget 



where we've been



 



isobel