The Mouse On The News

by: Jake Arminius | Published: March 22, 2015

With the eyes of a hawk
I read and search
For the mouse in the news
On and on I fly
Lies, truth, deceit
Are the grasses of the field

The Serpents hidden in the fields
Whisper in the ears
Of the fool and wise
Forked tongues weave
Tales and fables
Absurd and simple

There, across the river
Is the parable
The mouse scrambling amongst
The rocks
Climbing the mountain
It scurries

Already I weary
Become man I must
Pondering and deliberate
Now are my chains

Slowly I climb the mountain
Upright I' am
Slowly I go
As the Beast bounds ahead
Yet I know I must
Carry on
For the summit parts the clouds

From Homer to Aristotle, Ovid to Virgil
Patriarch to Prophet
Milton to Pope
Locke to Rand
Goebbels to Hunter S. Thompson
Tread straight

The gold is sifted through the mud
Headline to pulp
The greats transmute the metals of the base

Anger, grief, desperation
Is the flight of the Raven
His flight noisy and low
Yet the fool is the wisest
Not knowing his gold

Let loose the Ravens
Follow their flight
They will show you
The mouse

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