Platitudinous Bumble

A Poem by David C. Roberson

Something written about a girl I was once smitten with who eventually learned that the greatest danger is not ignorance... it’s believing knowledge will save you.

Platitudinous Bumble
08/26/2006
by David C. Roberson

Silly Girl
with thoughts like fingernails
digging deep into the brain of existence,
asking questions that most feel
are not necessary because we
in our fledgling understanding
can never fully grasp 
the overwhelming intricacies
of the nooks and crannies of time,
the essence and flow of space,
the mere microsecond of any place
that exists before it becomes 
something new and different.
Though not so visually!
No naked-eye evidence of change,
but it's there,
and it's in you,
it's in us,
and some don’t realize
any of this
until it's too late
to enjoy.

Funny Girl:
faces in pictures
that denounce notions
of a serious humor,
but in truth
a fact finder 
and Receiver
of motions 
and actions
and fractions,
of glances and sentences
worth dissecting
to reveal Light's Truth
of what appears behind it,
behind these things,
these words
and phrases and
clumped-together things
that have meaning only
based on inflections
and lonely
or happy
or sorrowful
or angry faces.

Allow me
to incite with a whisper
in your proverbial ear
a message which
might sound unclear:
The Dark Things are coming.
They sleep in their beds,
but they will come!
They will come
just as their Sires did.
Ignorant beings
who remain dark only
because they have yet to
see the Light of Truth.
They will attempt to tear
you down.
They will attempt to 
dissect you.
They will attempt to
put all of your parts (still moving)
into a little
black
box.
It is darker there
than any back alley.
You cannot fight with violence,
you can only radiate.
Shine your light,
and The Dark Things
shall dissipate.

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