A Voice From Deep Inside

-A Voice From Deep Inside-
by Keaton Foster


Silence
Hear
Know
Be sure
Never
Not for a second
Doubt
Resist
Please
Fight
To further persist
Give life
A war
The battle
For the ages
Let them know
You are here
Make sure
Without question
That a part of you
Will always remain
Once you are gone
A voice
From deep inside
Speaks
Hear its words
Pen the page
Takes what’s pure
Make it a mess
Stain the sheet
Mark the age
Leave all wisdom
Second guess
None of it
Spell out
What you are told
Write it down
Allow others
To make sense
Allow them
To see madness
To feel brilliance
Embracing
All that you are
All that has been
So that they can grow
So that they can know
That there are people
Those mired deep
That can teach
That can inspire
From all darkness
Comes truth and light
From every sadness
Comes a measure of
Absoluteness
They must know
And like it or not
It is you
That must show them
A voice
From deep inside
Is both
Your gift and curse
But unlike most
You somehow
Make it work
You have managed
To embrace
Every once
Of your madness
Every spectrum
Of your sorrow
Others can propagate
From what you know
Others can live
Vicariously through you
And your words
Of unbridled truth
I’ve seen it through
I know what it means
I understand the need
And people like you
Are the only ones
That can meet it
Take your gift
Sure it’s more curse
Make it truly work
God above will judge
The devil below will know
Between them both
Your life may go
But for now
Stay as neutral
As you possibly can
Give neither one
Anything to tip
The balance
In the others favor
Have faith
But more importantly
Have questions
Regarding that faith
There are no
Intentional fools
There are no
Burdensome rules
There is just
What you hear
And how you express it
A voice
From deep inside
Is both who you are
And what you can do
Be a poet mired by reality
Fear nothing of who you are
Or
What you have experienced
Because through you
And your words
There will be others
That will be able to avoid
What has brought you here
What has driven you
Down such a narrow path
Be not only a versifier
Be a martyr for your kind
Because in the end
Long after all of this
What you’ve done
Will remain as something more
That who you were…


A Voice From Deep Inside
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.