Deviation Actions
Literature Text
Busy people with busy lives
Forgetting to take a moment
To look beyond themselves.
They sit behind red lights,
Honking their horns loudly,
Demanding immediate change.
Never seeing the world
Sitting all around them,
Never taking a moment
To view the rolling clouds.
Single bright bulbs blur,
Becoming one long stream
While the cars buzz rapidly by.
Blinders keep their vision focused
Directly on the road ahead,
Constantly missing the point.
They never see what sits beyond
The windows of their cars.
Myopic vision confined
To the sights they've already seen.
And even though their world
Really makes no sense,
They insist upon keeping it
In exactly the same way.
Slipping their heads in the sand,
They ignore us completely.
They say we're on the outside -
Really, they're the ones without.
Unless they open their eyes,
Everything will always be the same.
Overall
Vision
Originality Technique ImpactAlone in the crowd, or moving amongst zombis.
My first reaction after reading this text was : "Oh, how I understand !"
Though I deem the subject rather common, I think the artist has done a remarkable work in depicting these (also) very common people we (well, I) run into every day of my life. Most of them despair me by their terrible lack of curiosity ; I would like to shout at them : "Look around ! The world is full of colours ! What the hell are you doing sitting here complaining and repeating the same things over and over ?"
But, let's not make this personal.
The artist makes a clever use of cars, both symbols of our industrialized era, and enclosed worlds in their own right. Indeed, it can be considered that being in a car removes you form the world, makes you agressive (scientifically proven) and prevents communion with nature. Probably the best idea here.
Free verse proves to be a good choice, leaving freedom of thought, but not damaging the musical quality a poem should always have.