Monkey in the Mirror

Monkey in the Mirror

Just like chimps in the trees

we bicker back and forth

with senseless words, meaning nothing to us.

Why do we think that what we say

will change anything.

So connected to the world, or so we thought.

We tend to forget the main internal goal

of this surrealistic world we have made  for ourselves.

...come  on, why do we feel that we are so smart,

our voice can spread disease and famine of a

non-educating intelect.

With our eyes sewn shut with the threads of money

you can only see sucess in the silk woven papers of green

and your notes of communcation come out in dollar signs.

If you don’t have that wad of cash in your hand you feel as

worthless as the lint in youir pocket.

Always running two steps behind the world of happenines

you laugh at the less fortuneate,

thinking, you are glad you are rich.

Your conceite runs away your family and friends

you start to lose sight of your goals

and one day you look in in the mirror,

and realize the monkey looking back from the glass, is you.

James Steiner

Nov. 9th 1999