Inspirational Poems: "Voices"

I like this as it's about being in a world with so many voices competing for our attention and wanting us to go along with them and promising us so much but not finding eternal spiritual truths amidst it all.  

We've even got government leaders who want people to put their "hope" and trust in them.....I think people were foolish to do it in the first place, but they are becoming increasingly disappointed.  This is a bit about that search and coming up empty in this world while listening to those voices instead of finding personal spiritual fulfillment - they instead find the opposite.

"Voices" by Lex De Azevedo. 

Voices calling me from everywhere

"Run over here!"

"Run over there!"

"We've got things to blow your mind!"

So I go! 

What do I find?

Nothing.

Pounding voices, rising, swelling, whispering mysteries, fortune telling.

Voices filled with books and learning

Crying their wares to make me wise.

"We've got ways to get there faster!"

So I go.

What do I find?

Nothing.

Voices crying under tables spreading secrets spinning fables......

Does anybody know anything that's real???

Something that will last for a while?

That I can hold and feel and keep!

That's more than paper and the wind!

That's more than just the frost upon the ground

And when the morning sun comes around

....it melts away......

 into nothing......?

Anxious voices, begging, pleading, chanting rhymes of love and freedom.

Voices rise in waves of air

"There is no sin!"

"You must be free!"

"Come with us and lose your conscience!"

So I go!

And what do I see?

Nothing!

Nothing. 

Nothing.

  Nothing......

Voices twisting into flashes.

Voices dwindling into ashes

Voices wearing wings of glitter.

Calling me. 

Beckoning me.

"We've got bread to bring you pleasure!"

So I go.

And what do I see?

Nothing. 

Nothing.

Nothing...

Nothing...

nothing.....