Resonate Love contains 144 poems written from May 10, 1978 to November 11, 1998.
They are listed in reverse chronological order, November 11, 1998 to May 10, 1978.
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by Mark R. Elsis
I was driving my taxi in Manhattan on a beautiful Summer evening in 1981 when a man flagged me down. I stopped, and a woman and man of about 60 years of age entered.
As soon as they were seated, the first thing the man said to me, with an Irish brogue, you're an Irish poet. I turned around and with some astonishment said; yes I am an Irish poet, both of my maternal grandparents were born in Ireland and my paternal lineage is also mostly Irish.
I then asked, how did you know within an instant that I was an
Irish poet?
He politely introduced his wife Gráinne Yeats and himself, Michael Yeats.
He then said I'm the son of William Butler Yeats.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright. He was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. In 1923 Yeats won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. Whereas he received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works as a playwright, his significance today rests on his poetic achievement.
Not one other person in my life has told me, you're an Irish poet.
I would tell others that I was an Irish poet here to save our species
from extinction.
Within moments of John
Denver entering my taxi he asked me, who are you,
Mark?
My answer was, I'm an Irish poet here to save our species
from extinction.
I've always found it most interesting that the first thing that the son of William Butler Yeats, the greatest poet of the twentieth century said to me was, you're an Irish poet.
I've come to the conclusion that when seemingly unbelievable occurrences like this happen, you know you're in the correct time and space and doing the right thing in life.
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
This meeting is from a book I have been writing, Meetings and Stories, about all of my meetings with prominent people, and my many fascinating and wondrous stories.
A few of my Meetings and Stories are online,
they include:
Michael Jackson, The Genesis Of Beat
It
John Denver, Love Is Why I Came Here In The First Place
Robin
Williams, My Two Meetings With Robin
Meetings and Stories
by Mark R. Elsis
This first poem was my 910th, and the last poem I wrote.
It was to my dear friend Aireal, who I still know and love.
Bless You Aireal
Being your best
Friendship and beauty
Love takes care of the rest
Bless you Aireal
For the woman you are
I think of you fondly
From so near and yet afar
by Mark R. Elsis
November 11, 1998
Smell The Roses
To make money society
With television constantly
Enslaving you to consume
Try to often stop
And smell the roses quietly
With mediation and exercise
Daily to keep one in tune
by Mark R. Elsis
December 23, 1996
The Window Of Opportunity
Is staring us squarely in the face
Begging us to form a unity
Before we fall from nature's grace
by Mark R. Elsis
December 18, 1996
Sweet Intricate Beauty
Sweet intricate beauty
Goodbye to all we knew
Goodbye to fine details
In the superstring soup
Goodbye to friend chaos
No butterflies in the loop
Goodbye forever to you
Sweet intricate beauty
Goodbye it can't be true
Humanity has failed its duty
by Mark R. Elsis
December 17, 1996
The Worst Of All Our Atrocities
To damage nature the way we are
Is the worst of all our atrocities
To ransack her from near and far
Forever diminishes our perpetuation
We have but a small yet significant role
In the intricate interdependence of all things
Living a sustainable life with congruity the goal
And a love of the diversity that all life brings
Will stop this damage toward nature that we do
With the worst of all our atrocities finally ending
But until that day comes all I can say to you
Is that nature is dying when it needs to be mending
by Mark R. Elsis
December 17, 1996
The Obedient Masses
They do just what they're told
They are the obedient masses
It doesn't matter what's being sold
Just stay in your station, caste, classes
And now as the world is going to hell
They still have little to no concern
Their souls to the devil they gladly sell
Will the obedient masses ever learn
They have the power within themselves
To change the course of history
by Mark R. Elsis
December 8, 1996
Our Responsibilities
Dereliction of our earthly stewardship
In almost every way that is conceivable
Our responsibilities long ago we let slip
The utter stupidity of man is unbelievable
Build your weapons and let millions starve
Have your religion and plunder the resources
Take every rainforest to cut up and carve
Follow the leaders blindly until your losses
Are no more
by Mark R. Elsis
November 25, 1996
Complexity
Complexity far beyond our imagination
Yet we arrogantly go about our merry way
Diversity being felled in one generation
Never again to see the light of a bright new day
The intricacy of all living beings on one another
We know so little about and don't seem to care
Variety being extinguished to put out and smother
For future generations there will be nothing to share
by Mark R. Elsis
November 23, 1996
Our Rightful Place
For which nature provides
Our rightful place
Is when harmony arrives
With all life on Earth
by Mark R. Elsis
November 19, 1996
A New Ethic Of Caring
For all life on Earth is needed
A humane way of sharing
Where reverence for all life is treated
A new ethic of caring
Must now form quickly from you and me
For the web of life is tearing
Apart much faster then anyone is willing to see
A new ethic of caring
Or our species will be taken care of
From bad to worse will go our faring
Till in the end there was no more love
by Mark R. Elsis
November 18, 1996
Tinkering With Divine Creation
Like a bunch of babbling babies
Tinkering with divine creation
Never caring about all the maybes
Trying to genetically engineer life
While your own species goes extinct
Lying to hide all inequitable strife
When to Earth you are forever linked
by Mark R. Elsis
November 11, 1996
Keeping The Status Quo Alive
In the face of certain annihilation
A masterful job where PR firms strive
And a dumbing down of education
Keeping the status quo alive
In the face of certain annihilation
The place media conglomerates strive
And all Hollywood produces obfuscation
Keeping the status quo alive
In the face of certain annihilation
The part for politicians so desperately strive
A government act of incautious deliberation
by Mark R. Elsis
November 11, 1996
Consume Less
And then back again and again
For this that and all the other
Silly useless and wasteful things
We no longer are looking to share
Like we did way back when
Almost everyone helped one another
Lost is the happiness this brings
Open yourself try voluntary simplicity
Learning to consume less is so freeing
Show the corporations no complicity
Slow down enough to just enjoy being
by Mark R. Elsis
November 9, 1996
A Unity Of One Percent
Who revere all life on Earth as dear
Must begin to form today
If there's any wish for survival here
A unity of one percent
Resonates when thinking as one
Causing a critical mass
Where sustainability will become
Upon all future generations
by Mark R. Elsis
November 6, 1996
Embedded throughout the land
The master's biddings
Woven into the fabric of our lives
Eradication perversely
Unending on a scale so grand
The billion starving babies
During my life's dying cries
Apathy prevailing
The conditioned sheep are all around
The master's biddings
Are now done without a thought or sound
by Mark R. Elsis
November 5, 1996
To Bare Witness
Show your voice
Together we band
For we have no choice
But to bare witness
To our own desolation
by Mark R. Elsis
November 1, 1996
The Pervasive Charade
Never let it fall
The pervasive charade
Is now spoken by all
by Mark R. Elsis
October 19, 1996
The Weight Of The World
I want to sense the wonder
I want to avert the tragedy
I want to stop the blunder
The weight of the world
The time running out
The hate constantly unfurled
The crime of silence all about
by Mark R. Elsis
October 6, 1996
Once Filled With Hope
But there is none to be found
It is getting harder to cope
With the devastation all around
I try to find hope
But I'm disappointed every time
I'm at the end of my rope
Waiting for humanity to pay for its crime
I try to find hope
But it is irreversibly too late
I was once filled with hope
But now I know that which is to be our fate
by Mark R. Elsis
October 4, 1996
Don't Worry
Don't worry about overpopulation
Don't worry about all the pollution
Don't worry about deforestation
Don't worry about a sustainable solution
Don't worry about global warming
Don't worry about the ozone hole
Don't worry about new viruses forming
Don't worry about the kids future we stole
Don't worry about nuclear weapons or power
Don't worry about pesticides in your food
Don't worry about the 4000 kids starving to death each hour
Don't worry about the TV being stupid and crude
Don't worry about fish stocks declining
Don't worry about corrosive acid rain
Don't worry about all the strip mining
Don't worry about the slaughtered animals pain
Don't worry about the 265 billion for defense
Don't worry about total corporate power
Don't worry about the loss of common sense
Don't worry about chlorine in your shower
Don't worry about grain yields diminishing
Don't worry about cancer rates rising
Don't worry about another species finishing
Don't worry about your company downsizing
Don't worry about recycling your trash
Don't worry about genetic engineering
Don't worry about it ending in a flash
Don't worry about anything you're fearing
Because our complete devastation of all life is now irreversible
by Mark R. Elsis
October 1, 1996
Blinded
Blinded by ambition
Too deaf to heed
A slave to submission
Materialism fills your days
Return on investment rules
Indoctrination of the fools
by Mark R. Elsis
September 28, 1996
Distractions
Filling you up with useless information
There is no need for your dreams
We just want a homogenous civilization
Distractions everywhere you turn
So you're caught up in the game
Distractions maybe someday you'll learn
Are only here to keep us all the same
by Mark R. Elsis
September 26, 1996
For All Life Is Interdependent
Then the government
Now the corporations
Next the cooperation
For all life is interdependent
by Mark R. Elsis
September 23, 1996
Homo Sapiens
The iceberg is now ripping
The unsinkable Titanic
Homo sapiens
by Mark R. Elsis
August 1, 1996
Trivial Matters
Wasting our time with distracting
Trivial matters
While our Earth is being decimated
In our lifetime
In front of our eyes
When there is nothing more important
For humanity to do
Then to face this atrocity
And deal with it with all our energies
But no not us
We'd rather be
Wasting our time with distracting
Trivial matters
by Mark R. Elsis
June 8, 1996
The Last Song
For a mate
But there are no mates
To be found
The last of his kind
But he keeps on singing
I wonder if he knows
How beautiful he sings
The last song
by Mark R. Elsis
May 1, 1996
Beauty
Beauty is vanishing at an alarming rate
Man is in a hurry he just can't wait
The Sea Empress let go of her oil there mate
In a marine sanctuary now isn't that great
Double-hulled tankers once more too late
Now the coast of Wales is in a slippery state
What we want we get that is our fate
Beauty is vanishing at an alarming rate
by Mark R. Elsis
February 23, 1996
Time Stood Still For Me
You and your dad
Your first step down that aisle
Something beyond beauty you had
Time stood still for me
For I'd never had seen
Here comes my wife to be
A miracle vision I did deem
by Mark R. Elsis
May 2, 1994
The Sustainable Limits Have Past
The sustainable limits have past
Time for order to rearrange
Checks and balances brutally fast
April 10, 1994
Are You So Greedy
For the generations to come
Are you so greedy
Depleting till there is none
by Mark R. Elsis
February 4, 1992
Piece Of Debris Number Three
Has been rendered useless
Mismanaged shortsightedly
Plundered expediently
by Mark R. Elsis
June 9, 1990
Hilary Beth
You are my better half
To grow together in the remaining days
To be with me each step of the path
With you by my side
I'll have the courage to be
My fears I will no longer hide
I will fulfill my destiny
by Mark R. Elsis
July 4, 1989
Start To Care Now
Time is of the essence
The answer is not political
Each day gone by lessens
Our very survival here
What we can do
Is up to you and me
We can save ourselves
If we want it to be
Where our grandchildren
Can laugh and play
Start to care now
Please don't turn away
It starts in you
It starts in me
So future generations can be
by Mark R. Elsis
April 20, 1988
All I Hope For
The birds are singing
The tears are pouring
Will they ever stop
I try to keep busy
But it's no use
All I hope for
Is your love again
by Mark R. Elsis
April 16, 1988
Hilary
Again and again
My eyes fill with emotion
Realizing how lucky I've been
To hold you in my arms
To run my fingers through your hair
I'm taken by your charms
To a place where there isn't a care
by Mark R. Elsis
February 11, 1988
Early November
Another cycle complete
Gray impending skies
Waiting on winter to meet
by Mark R. Elsis
November 5, 1987
The Greatest Of Ease
The words use to come together
With the greatest of ease
I thought it would last forever
Until one day when the pen in my hand did freeze
Not a clever phrase it would write
I did not know what was wrong
Emptiness and anguish I was not whole
Bitterness and self-doubt took their toll
Now three years have past
But during my drought I've asked
Friends and strangers for answers
It's just a phase it won't last
My poems were to awaken all humankind
To open our souls and help us find
A new understanding while there's still time
For our raping of nature is the last crime
by Mark R. Elsis
November 5, 1987
The Beings From Afar
Must look at us and laugh
Just babies in evolution
Crawling down extinctions path
by Mark R. Elsis
November 5, 1987
I Still Imagine
My president was blown away
I wondered why
In fifth grade
Martin and Robert were filled with lead
I began to understand
In the summer before high school
Morrison was in French soil
But no one was there
I became scared
For John
The warmest 8th of December
In New York City history
I was driving my cab
When Vinny broke the news
From that day till now
At 29
Every time I pass 1 West 72nd Street
I feel humanity
Has no hope
But I still imagine
by Mark R. Elsis
September 21, 1987
The Atomic Hump
Five evolutions to get it right
And here we go again
Constantly in conflict and fight
I think it's time to say when
Enough is enough
I'm bored of the game
Drop the act of being tough
Finally realize we're all the same
I call it the atomic hump
The make or break time
Or pay for the ultimate crime
by Mark R. Elsis
October 6, 1986
Twenty-Two Years Ago Today
A five-year-old boy
Was aquatinted with
A very particular lesson
How to kill a president
by Mark R. Elsis
November 22, 1985
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Timeline
by Mark R. Elsis
Distorted Views
Cover-ups and lies
It doesn't matter which administration
They're all cut from the same pies
Distorted views
Slanted news
It'll make you numb
What right to choose
You'll only lose
Are the thoughts of some
by Mark R. Elsis
July 1, 1984
Marie
Maybe because
I've been hurt
But you make me feel
So I can forget
And it makes me feel
Alive again
Thank you girl
Thank you
by Mark R. Elsis
February 2, 1984
Perplexed In The Riddle
Able to do so little
Suspended on a crutch
Perplexed in the riddle
Don't know the right road
But I know we're on the wrong road
Oh I feel a heavy load
To stop the truth that's been sold
Killing on a corner
The powers that teach to hate
by Mark R. Elsis
January 26, 1984
Take Responsibility
And it only gets worse
Stay in the gray
Until your in the hearse
Take responsibility
And it can only get better
We have the ability
It's just the choice of whether
We take responsibility
Or turn away
by Mark R. Elsis
January 8, 1984
To Shed Some Light
About what I feel is wrong
To shed some light
About how we're led along
In this land of the free
We must be brave
For our future you see
A new road we must pave
by Mark R. Elsis
November 10, 1983
But yet feel so defeated
Born into a generation of lunacy
Where with destruction I'm greeted
I feel a failure
With no future in store
A no-win situation
With materialism the whore
by Mark R. Elsis
September 22, 1983
In My Arms
And made me cry
She didn't mean to harm
But I thought it easier to die
by Mark R. Elsis
September 10, 1983
Not Knowing
It's the thought of not knowing
If we will be here tomorrow
The constant peril always growing
As if each day we must borrow
This pressure of uncertainty
Is taking its toll on me
Humanity ignoring the emergency
Extinction
by Mark R. Elsis
July 27, 1983
Still Innocent
The pain and sorrow
The still innocent little boy
Learning how to hate for tomorrow
by Mark R. Elsis
July 27, 1983
Kimberly
You stole my heart
And even though
We're apart
You're with me always
No other girl
Has touched me the way
You have
by Mark R. Elsis
January 1, 1983
The Cry Of Helplessness
It won't hold out
Man has raped nature
There is no doubt
We've grown too fast
Become a burden
Taxed the system
And called it progress
The peak of selfishness
To make life easy
The cry of helplessness
by Mark R. Elsis
December 31, 1982
Groomed Puppets That Deceive
In this land of the free
How money breeds dedication
In the name of liberty
With political promising lies
You know better than believe
They're all the same you realize
Groomed puppets that deceive
So you give up hope
Believing it will never change
Apathy is how you cope
Something you always found strange
by Mark R. Elsis
December 27, 1982
Rests Forever
In order to evolve
But if we're going to succeed
Dire problems we must solve
So face this reality
Our choice is here and now
The key to our mortality
Rests forever with our decision how
by Mark R. Elsis
December 25, 1982
Guilty Of Apathy
We hold no hope
Our ways can't be changed
We're at the end of our rope
This way of thinking
Is where the problem lies
Negative attitudes are sinking
Too afraid to try
We fear our destruction
Yet guilty of apathy
Free will our instruction
While time dwindles rapidly
by Mark R. Elsis
December 18, 1982
Up To Us
The illusions we choose
Are up to us
The dreams we lose
We never did trust
by Mark R. Elsis
November 25, 1982
Leader Of The Hill
Make the decisions
They bought the country
Electing their politicians
An army full of men
To protect and kill
The number one game
Leader of the hill
by Mark R. Elsis
June 17, 1982
The Sin Of Sins
Skillfully corrupted
Meager mortality
Nuclear deducted
The sin of sins
The killing weapons
No one wins
Stop the deceptions
Life would cease
In vain again
War over peace
Another lesson when
Too much was learned
And turned to kill
Suicide was confirmed
But they went ahead still
by Mark R. Elsis
June 17, 1982
We're Out Of Touch
All too much
Our news is slanted
We're out of touch
Bred to compete
For the almighty dollar
A sucker to beat
by Mark R. Elsis
April 16, 1982
Evolutions Choice Is Now
The hourglass
Won't wait
In vain too late
by Mark R. Elsis
April 16, 1982
Disciplined Logic
Mindless chaos
There's a right way
There's a wrong way
Back to nature
Manufacture arms
There's life
There's death
by Mark R. Elsis
April 6, 1982
Tell Me If
You think of me
Wondering how
It might be
Cause sometimes
I wonder
And look back when
I grew to love you
And never knew if
by Mark R. Elsis
March 11, 1982
You Remember When
And back again
Upside down
You remember when
It was always better
by Mark R. Elsis
March 11, 1982
Emptiness Anxiety Runs
Within ourselves
To open and see
The path that tells
Which road to walk
To find our peace
Unplug the cork
Let conformed realities cease
Scared of the unknown
Or never thought to try
Material possession grown
Leaves you wondering why
Contentment rarely comes
Or worries never go
Emptiness anxiety runs
by Mark R. Elsis
March 11, 1982
Despair And Strange
In hope of change
Reality that I know
Is despair and strange
Eats at my inside
With time running out
No place to hide
I no longer doubt
by Mark R. Elsis
February 19, 1982
Insanity Can't Last
They're all around
Pay the fines
Birds and animals
They're disappearing
Man is next
Yes I'm fearing
Evolution too fast
Is the reason
Insanity can't last
Taking each season
Till nothing grows
From the ground
Only pollution flows
With radiation found
In you and me
by Mark R. Elsis
February 19, 1982
Without Weapons
With hunger, disease and pollution
You give only your apology
Because you think there's no solution
To the arms race we let go on
To instinct survival
Passive to the deadly harm
To evolve this far
Just to be had by a con
You apathetic humans
With no sense of direction
You follow like sheep
Just tell me why
Cause without weapons
We would flourish
Live without fear
Every human nourished
We could end diseases
And all the suffering
But still you follow like sheep
by Mark R. Elsis
February 17, 1982
My Worries Disappear
My worries disappear
Tight embraces cause shivers
It is love that's here
Our eyes searching the depths
As if to step inside one another
Our hands reaching to feel
That pleasure for the other
by Mark R. Elsis
February 5, 1982
You've Given Up Hope
You can't change the system
Mellowing out with age
You no longer try to resist them
You've lost your morals
They've changed your ways
But deep down it eats at you
They've trapped you in the maze
Torn between the dream you had
And the life you live
Still knowing your being had
But not wanting to give
by Mark R. Elsis
February 5, 1982
Feed Them Guns
While innocent die
Have nothing left to try
Money making weapons
We will supply
When farming technology
Is the pleading cry
by Mark R. Elsis
February 5, 1982
Playing Fate With Dice
For good or bad
So don't be mad
In the years to come
We pay the price
Following blinded leaders
Playing fate with dice
by Mark R. Elsis
February 4, 1982
John Lennon
You made me write the words I do
I'll even admit I idolized you
Your assassination ended an era so they say
But your message still lives in me each day
And I'll reach the masses because I feel
That certain destruction could be real
If our ways don't change from what is now
And stop the killing weapons we let allow
Oh the hypocrisy we let go on
The human civilization ends with a con
With shortsighted leaders sedating us all
Technology betrays with apathy we fall
by Mark R. Elsis
December 12, 1981
Strawberry Fields
Keeping the Spirit of John Lennon Alive
A Film by Mark R. Elsis
To One Of Love
Optimism we need
Instead of the greed
Hope is the seed
If we want to lead
This world of chaos
To one of love
by Mark R. Elsis
December 12, 1981
What a beautiful life given us
A paradise for humans to run
Live forever or turn to dust
Whatever happens it's what we've done
And now that we have reached
The time to choose our destiny
Global unity I do preach
by Mark R. Elsis
November 19, 1981
Follow If You Wish
Our morals slip away
And still the politicians say
Tomorrow will bring a better day
Follow if you wish
But suicides the risk
And ignorance the dish
You feed upon
by Mark R. Elsis
November 19, 1981
Childhood Adulthood
Innocent smiling
Adulthood run
Competitive lying
by Mark R. Elsis
November 14, 1981
A Paradise Yours Pure
You don't learn by mistakes
A paradise yours pure
And only one for the takes
by Mark R. Elsis
November 14, 1981
Poetic Insight
Easily ignored
Nuclear madness
Taxed and adored
Apathetic extinction
Terminal trend
Survival instinct
Preservations end
by Mark R. Elsis
November 14, 1981
Scared Of The Truth
Our civilization could end
But not many show
Any concern to lend
Scared of the truth
You don't want to believe
Cornered in your booth
It's only yourself you deceive
Let's fight for survival
While there's still a chance
Only a worldwide revival
Peaceably showing our stance
Could lead us away
From the certain destruction
The rulers of today
Are killing us by corruption
by Mark R. Elsis
November 10, 1981
Living Beyond Our Means
Busting at our seams
Yet still we want more
Playing do or die
The excitement of the try
Will soon kill us for sure
by Mark R. Elsis
November 10, 1981
Impossible Odds
Is what we're facing
A world of hate
Till the end we're racing
Building our weapons
When people are starving
Fighting over our paradise
When only harmony will save us
by Mark R. Elsis
November 10, 1981
Just Infants Being Bold
We were still on horses
Little did we know
The industrial age loses
Would wipe us out
Cause we could not control
No technological doubt
Just infants being bold
by Mark R. Elsis
November 1, 1981
The Dreamers Are Dreaming
It's almost the end
The dreamers are dreaming
The masses aren't apathetic
Drugged just getting by
The situations pathetic
So why give it a try
by Mark R. Elsis
November 1, 1981
Drifting Aimlessly
Wandering around
When the truth is a lie
You finally found
We're drifting aimlessly
Searching shamelessly
For our human worth
by Mark R. Elsis
November 1, 1981
Let's Join Our Hands
You damn well know
How bad it's got
But still you don't show
You'd rather burn out and rot
Let's join our hands
And not give in
The Earth is our land
And together we can win
by Mark R. Elsis
November 1, 1981
You Just Can't Admit It
Cause deep down it scares you
You just can't admit it
That our years left are so few
So you lead your life fast
In hopes to pack it all in
And maybe somehow it will last
Long enough for you to have been
Through all the scenes till they bore
The drugs the sex the always wanting more
Just copping out that's for sure
When we could still save our rotting core
by Mark R. Elsis
July 17, 1981
Because we don't know
Are we paired
So conflict will grow
Are we bred
To learn to conform
Are we led
To kill and mourn
Will life cease
Because of greed
Or will peace
Somehow succeed
It's up to you
It's up to me
To change ourselves
To somehow see
by Mark R. Elsis
July 8, 1981
Somehow Succeed inspired Michael Jackson to create Beat It.
The single Beat It, along with its music video, propelled Thriller into becoming the best-selling album of all time. The happenstance of Michael Jackson and I meeting that night in AM-PM, created a miracle to make the world a better place.
This brings a smile to my face and joy to my heart, every day of my life.
The Genesis of Beat It
by Mark R. Elsis
From One Another
From one another
Sell with feeling
Beat your brother
Get rich quick
While humans starve
You're fucking sick
But still you carve
Strip-till it's bare
No more tomorrows
For children to share
There will only be sorrows
by Mark R. Elsis
June 21, 1981
Government Sponsored
Unless you care
I can scream and shout
About what ain't fair
But you've got to change
From deep inside
Brought up fast and strange
Don't run and hide
From the troubled day
By taking drugs
To escape the pain
It's a cover-up
To keep us down
Government sponsored
Every pound
by Mark R. Elsis
June 4, 1981
The Tears Did Shed
(Billy's Funeral November 28, 1980)
Will it get worse
There's rainy weather
With a black hearse
The tears did shed
While not believing
A word you said
So much grieving
Did leave me numb
And memories ago
Kept filtering through
Of a time when no
It can not be
Ever again
by Mark R. Elsis
May 29, 1981
Extinct Is Forever
Technology the tool
Extinct is forever
Don't be a fool
And say it's alright
Or laugh it away
Stand up and fight
Our numbers will say
Something positive
That will catch like fire
An expose the greedy
Cold hearted liar
by Mark R. Elsis
May 26, 1981
Without Deception
With cut out steps
Leads you nowhere
Without deception
by Mark R. Elsis
May 26, 1981
Our Love
(For Ingrid)
And make you smile each day
I want to grow with you
And make love every way
I want to share our time
Cause together we are one
Mine is yours and yours is mine
Our dream together can be done
To share the sunsets
And gaze at the full moons
To have no regrets
Or hidden forever wounds
To trust and inspire
To dream and create
To want and desire
That which is our fate
by Mark R. Elsis
May 7, 1981
Throw In The Towel
Radiation leaks
Cancer lumps
Mutated freaks
Toxic shock
Agent orange
Government mock
Goes on and on
Nuclear waste
Leukemia rate
Technology haste
Is our fate
Love Canal
TMI
Throw in the towel
And wave good-bye
Oil spills
Nerve gas seeps
Man kills
No longer reaps
Arms race
Strip mining
Pollution pace
Elegant dining
Atomic tests
Silkwood dead
Militarily best
To beat the red
Drug sedaters
Alcohol waiters
Shut you up
Make you give up
by Mark R. Elsis
May 7, 1981
Together To Better
And let it go on
And fall for the con
Look the other way
Hear but don't listen
All I'm trying to say
Is common sense is missing
How can we let
Ourselves be fooled
Why don't we get
Our energies pooled
Together to better
And stop being ruled
By corrupt politicians
Leading us down
Lose your inhibitions
And gather around
For unity is strength
And strength we need
To shorten the length
Between poverty and greed
To stop the pollution
And worldwide hunger
There's an easy solution
That you've sometimes wondered
If we all get together
Throughout the world
We could live forever
The way you know it should be
by Mark R. Elsis
May 7, 1981
Another Try On The Town
(Manhattan)
Have a tote of coke
Have liquor in a glass
Have another smoke
Go out and dance
In your new fashion
Search for romance
You need some passion
Get high come down
Another try on the town
Searching in circles
Going nowhere fast
Living in a dream
But it won't last
You're soon to get bored
It's not like it was
Just the same old chord
As the new club opens
And you got to check it out
by Mark R. Elsis
May 6, 1981
Lost Logic
Lost morals
Lost values
Only sorrows
Family decay
Gone array
Nothing to say
About the way
Our lives are leading
Don't stand up
For what is right
Just give up
Without a fight
A bunch of losers
Who'll stay that way
Just bar room boozers
Who can't see the day
by Mark R. Elsis
May 3, 1981
Sometimes I Wish
I didn't know what I knew
Sometimes I wish
I didn't care but I do
And it hurts to see
The apathy around
Everybody out for me
Well I think we're bound
Unless there's to be found
The logical deduction
Of caring now
For preservation but
I don't see how
With the road we're choosing
by Mark R. Elsis
April 19, 1981
Industrialed Ruin
Is where we're headed
Industrailed ruin
With workers embedded
Industrialed ruin
Our paradise lost
Industrialed ruin
We'll pay the cost
Industrialed ruin
You don't care
Industrialed ruin
We're almost there
Industrialed ruin
Live for today
Industrialed ruin
Blinded to the way
It was meant to be
by Mark R. Elsis
April 19, 1981
Listen To Reason
How long are you gonna take it
How can you just sit back
How long are you gonna fake it
Before you get on the right track
We're living real high
We're stripping the land
I don't know why
We let it get out of hand
So take a realistic view
You'll see it can't go on
We need an optimistic new
Or certain death from the great con
Survival is the basic instinct
Yet we're burning out so fast
Suicide will make us extinct
The raping of nature won't last
So how long you gonna be fooled
By the great con being played
How long you gonna be ruled
Blinded by the money you're being paid
Listen to reason
I beg of you
The final treason
Is up to you
Listen to reason
I beg of you
The final treason
Is up to you
by Mark R. Elsis
April 14, 1981
Raw Beauty Nature
New life all around
Golden sunray
Is lost and found
Raw beauty nature
You always astound
Swaying trees moving clouds
Birds chirping their sound
by Mark R. Elsis
April 2, 1981
Foresight Is Cheap
It's hard to tell
In just a flick
We've emptied the well
Foresight is cheap
When it's too late
We're sinking in deep
Still wanting the bait
Computer malfunction
Warning overload
Drastic measures needed
In order to continue
We must all realize this is it
We must change
In order to exist
by Mark R. Elsis
April 2, 1981
Ignorant Innocence
Pollute the air
Shoot the mortar
Cause it's there
Radiation leaking
You don't know
Nerve gas seeping
Let it flow
A million a minute
But you want more
To make killing arms
To die in a war
Ignorant innocence
Blind ambition
You've lost your way
Final submission
Rape the Earth
Suck the blood
Take the worth
Lick the mud
If it isn't nailed down
They'll take it
They found the hammer
And did
by Mark R. Elsis
April 2, 1981
Gates Of Heaven
I passed by the Dakota
Sunroof open barely creeping
An hour before the end
I saw a shadow
Lurked in the darkness
I thought security
Because of the article
How many times
I've passed before
Those iron gates
Can I cry once more
Since I was five
I've heard the words
Now only vinyl
Is left to hear
by Mark R. Elsis
February 6, 1981
It was 11:45 pm on December 8, 1980, when I arrived at the Dakota and already there was large group of people mourning. I double parked my Peugeot 504 taxi just about 25 feet West of the gates, in front of the Dakota. Then I opened the sunroof and placed a portable speaker on the roof, so people could hear WNEW FM live. Soon hundreds of people had gathered. Throughout the night thousands arrived, mourned and left.
I stayed in front of the Dakota for the next nine hours. These nine hours were the catalyst that transformed my life. I swore on John's blood that I would do everything I possibly could to enlighten humanity and make our world better for future generations.
Strawberry Fields (Assassination Sequence)
Try And Bring A Halt
In too few years
The masses in a jar
Not knowing the fears
They're playing with fire
Like babies with a match
Always shooting for higher
When they don't know the catch
We've got to slow down
And play it safe
Put our feet on the ground
Before it's too late
One button and it's gone
No time to blink
They couldn't back down
No time to think
We let it go on
It's all our fault
Look the other way
Or try and bring a halt
by Mark R. Elsis
January 10, 1981
You And Yours Are Fine
We're living in confused times
We're on that fine line
We're hanging by a thread
Always increasing crime
Still struggling to stay ahead
The competitions rough
But your hard-nosed and tough
Yet you sink like lead
You don't know what to do
They've gotten the best of you
Believing the lies you've read
by Mark R. Elsis
January 10, 1981
Why Are We Here
What is it all about
Each day there's a new fear
Always living in doubt
Cause tomorrow may not come
And today may be the end
Through the selfishness of some
Who will break before they bend
And day after day
We let it go by
Living it their way
Too lazy to try
While deep down you know
It's going from bad to worse
As the mounting problems grow
Like a balloon ready to burst
So don't hide what you feel
Cause this is the last call
And I'm telling you for real
Together we can avoid the fall
And make a new world
The way it should be
One government for all
United and free
To carry on forever
In tune with nature
Knowing that together
We can make it real
by Mark R. Elsis
November 25, 1980
Why Are We Here
Is Dedicated To My Friend Billy Who Died Today
(After This Was Written)
Thank For What Is Ours
That cold and windy night
I walked along the beach
Until it was nearly light
I thought about so much
Watching the waves and stars
I just wanted to reach out and touch
And thank for what is ours
by Mark R. Elsis
October 12, 1980
Who's Fooling Who
And see through the lies
When you know it ain't fair
Yet you don't even criticize
You're just as wrong
Being weak an accepting
Giving into the strong
But who's fooling who
And who'll laugh last
When in the end you knew
What you've learned in the past
by Mark R. Elsis
October 3, 1980
Terminal Trend
The stage is set
A rude awakening
Is a safe bet
Cause the time has come
When chaos must end
And realize that some
Are selling a terminal trend
They don't give a shit
Or care for tomorrow
As long they hit
Home with no sorrow
by Mark R. Elsis
October 3, 1980
Our Backs Are To The Wall
But it's the truth
There's no disguise
We're living proof
How bad it's got
And understand how
There's still a shot
From the modern way
That strips its worth
Only concerned with today
The change must come
From you and me
Stop living on the run
And then you'll see
The pace we've kept
Would kill us all
And already we've slept
Our backs are to the wall
by Mark R. Elsis
September 13, 1980
For Tomorrow Today
We're at the time
When we can't look away
We need a solution
For tomorrow today
by Mark R. Elsis
September 1, 1980
Which Road To Walk
We're on the threshold
We're at the fork
We're at the point
Which road to walk
Destiny is ours
In what we choose
Everything rides
It's either win or lose
The stakes are high
It's the last chance
To either live or die
It's in our hands
The change we need
Is plain to see
No more greed
And then we'll be
Working together
For the future
Rest assured
We carry on
by Mark R. Elsis
September 1, 1980
Given A Paradise
That's ours to run
So whatever happens
It's what we've done
by Mark R. Elsis
September 1, 1980
Take Take Take
It's complete madness
It can't go on
It'll never last
Take take take
Until no more
Is left to give
by Mark R. Elsis
September 1, 1980
What You Already Knew
But you choose to ignore them
Can't face up to reality
Scared of the day when
Our greed catches up
And there's no avoiding
And not even caring
What I'm saying is
We've got the choice
What I'm hoping is
You hear my voice
And become aware
Before it's too late
We all must care
Cause it's all our fate
There's only one way
We'll make it through
You got to realize today
What you already knew
by Mark R. Elsis
September 1, 1980
Share Its Beauty
We let it go by
We're so out of touch
Cause we don't even try
To live in this world
And share its beauty
Or look for the future
Perpetuation is our duty
Realize it or don't want to
But it's only getting worse
And the longer you ignore it
by Mark R. Elsis
July 27, 1980
Day After Day
In our world today
We all resist
Nature's own way
Irreversible damage
Day after day
So far from nature
Caught in their way
by Mark R. Elsis
July 13, 1980
As If By Divine Plan
And think about this
Listen real careful
Cause there's no time to miss
It's getting beyond reach
It's gotten out of hand
The power hungry preach
As if by divine plan
And you don't know
Or just let it go by
And you're always on the go
But always asking why
They drain your life
Squeeze every last drop
Tell you of freedom
When looking from the top
by Mark R. Elsis
July 8, 1980
A Vicious Circle
All the crutches
All the choices
That pass us by
Escaping them all
To get high
It's a vicious circle
Hard to break
Where nothing matters
When it's all at stake
by Mark R. Elsis
July 4, 1980
Drug Us All
Drugs there
There's always something
To rid your care
It never stops
A constant crutch
From the burden you share
Keep us down
Drug us all
Not a sound
Until the fall
Fuck it all
Cause you don't care
You've given up
You've dropped your share
Sold out to drugs
Your everyday fix
Easing your mind
Of the everyday tricks
by Mark R. Elsis
July 1, 1980
For Patti
And still thinking of you
Whether it's lust or kicks
I only wish I knew
But I love the feeling
And have to see you again
Cause the attraction your dealing
Makes me want a winning hand
From your purple clothes
To your three earring earlobe
And your deep golden skin
You've caught my eye
And something keeps telling me
Not to let you slip by
So I'm writing these words
To grab your attention
Tell you of my feelings
To convey my affection
by Mark R. Elsis
June 24, 1980
Decay In Glory
And heard the stories
I've laughed out loud
While wondering alone
Just why our morals
Decay in glory
When our civilization
Could have grown
by Mark R. Elsis
June 23, 1980
Wanting Another Try
And I think it's time
To show our voice
Cause it's such a crime
Living and knowing
Of all the wrong
Yet never even showing
What we feel so strong
So let's not sit back
And just let it go by
Cause we're on the wrong track
Headed for an early good-bye
So get up an say
That we need a switch
We want a new way
We want it real quick
They're ruining it all
They're ruining it fast
Making me hope each day
That it won't be my last
With their pollution and guns
And their greed and neglect
Nuclear power when we have the sun
And all their drugs to keep us wrecked
Don't you see through it
They're just out for today
They couldn't give a shit
About doing it the right way
So let's not sit back
And just let it go by
Finally realizing too late
And wanting another try
by Mark R. Elsis
June 23, 1980
Test Subjects
We are the dying breed
We are the last checks
Here to balance the greed
An awaken you all
So we can plant a new seed
Knock down the wall
That strangles you like a weed
We are here to change
Extinction to perpetuation
Get rid of the strange
Leading us to devastation
It's all up to us
To want a new day
With us you can trust
We won't lead you astray
What's best for all
Is the way it will be
Knock down the wall
For unity is the key
And it won't be easy
Cause they're set in their way
Molded in the cast
Until their dying day
Which won't be long
So we have no time to waste
We've already been led along
So now we have to haste
And think for tomorrow
Forget about yesterday
It will only bring you sorrow
And happiness is the only way
by Mark R. Elsis
June 23, 1980
You Create Your Own Reality
Look at every angle
Seek and you shall find
What your heart desires
You create your own reality
Which in turn
Reflects your daily personality
The being that you are
The aura that surrounds
by Mark R. Elsis
June 23, 1980
Not To Say A Sound
To finally realize
That behind those big smiles
Were all those lies
Just saying anything
To keep us down
Manipulating our ways
Not to say a sound
by Mark R. Elsis
June 23, 1980
Imprisoned In Strife
Addicted to that
Building the bridges
With the bricks you subtract
All out of focus
You live your lives
Them feeding you nonsense
And imprisoned in strife
by Mark R. Elsis
May 22, 1980
Stuck in your ways
Living so uniformly
Trapped in your maze
by Mark R. Elsis
March 19, 1980
Words Of Warning
With only bad news to hear
So I write you these words of warning
To let you know of my fear
We're letting it get out of control
We're losing our grip
We're selling our very soul
We're aboard a sinking ship
by Mark R. Elsis
February 14, 1980
It's make-or-break
One more time
Will we cover ourselves
In our prime
Or learn to live
As meant to be
Back with nature
Forever in harmony
Which we choose
Is up to us
Either we fuse
Or forever rust
But now's the time
To make the choice
And only together we'll find
They'll hear our voice
To make the changes
That has to be
For us to live
Forever in harmony
by Mark R. Elsis
February 2, 1980
Puppets On A String
Just puppets on a string
Or real people
That don't mean a thing
by Mark R. Elsis
January 24, 1980
It's Not Too Late
We can't let grow
And I've got the answer
But don't we all know
We need to get together
To live as one
With the energy of the sun
And it's not too late
But we must start now
If not our fate
You will allow
So please understand
We have to stop the hate
And live in a land
Loving your fellow mate
Where pollution is no more
And hunger does not exist
Cause population had a law
Enabling all of this
And it's not too late
But we must start now
If not our fate
You will allow
So wake up to all the wrong
And see the light
Don't let the manipulating strong
Take away what's right
Cause their foresight is blind
In living for today
Their contracts were signed
With no need for delay
by Mark R. Elsis
January 22, 1980
Everything That Is
(Venice Beach, California)
Rhythmically pounding
Motionless absorbing
Everything that is
How content
With the raw beauty
by Mark R. Elsis
December 20, 1979
A Merry-Go-Round
A merry-go-round with in-betweens
Lost in a fog in a sea of confusion
Looking for help through realities illusion
Got to break out and getaway
Or the conditioning ties will stay
Trapping you till tomorrow's today
Becomes a bitter memory of yesterday
by Mark R. Elsis
December 15, 1979
So Little We Know
But we don't care
Let ignorance grow
And leave us bare
by Mark R. Elsis
December 14, 1979
Waiting For You
Looking around with nothing to do
Read the Times so I'll write some more
Waiting for you to walk through the door
Another flight empties out
People walk little kids shout
Potbellied men in their leisure suits
Long haired youths with t-shirts of no-nukes
Fashionable girls dragging their bags
While the country boys dressed in rags
Look aimlessly at the jet set fags
While time keeps passing by
As another pretty young girl catches my eye
by Mark R. Elsis
September 3, 1979
The Black Hole In Space
Through the black hole in space
Getting lost in a sea of confusion
Walking around with the human race
by Mark R. Elsis
May 29, 1979
Some Way
And the television has nothing more to say
I lie awake thinking of you
And wishing you were here some way
Cause love never felt better
While being in the arms of you
And now all I can do is remember
Those precious loving days so few
by Mark R. Elsis
May 19, 1979
My Bottom Draw
I take it out and lay it on the floor
Wanting to see old photographs of you
To help me remember things I once knew
But the perfume on your cards fills the air
As I write to you at this moment so rare
You're soon to be twenty and it just seems fair
To let you know that I still care
And want for you all that's there
So take this new decade for all its got
Go out there and give it your best shot
by Mark R. Elsis
December 29, 1978
In A Cage
My love for you stays
Tearing at my insides
Like a lion in a rage
by Mark R. Elsis
October 2, 1978
Without You
And turned into weeks
Which lasted months
Until a year passed
Without you
by Mark R. Elsis
September 19, 1978
Can't Get By
In the first car
It feels the best
So where do you go from there
When you see the end
Before the rest
by Mark R. Elsis
September 6, 1978
Love Is
Love is the trust in each other
On which you can depend
That forever kiss
At the sunset's end
by Mark R. Elsis
May 10, 1978
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