In Pursuit of Truth / Lemuel LaRoche aka LIFE

From the inner depth of the universe

An inner light is born

Placed in the eyes of a new child

To see through a world that is torn


Sketched on a canvas filled with vampires

They will consume you until you die

Why must the young peak to old age

To learn it’s all a lie


What a blind man said of finding truth

Is that it could be purchased with a buck

Then truth exposed him of his mortality

When his fatal illness struck


Asked to be buried with his fortune

A display of gluttony to the sight

For not his pennies, nor his dollars

Could alter the reaper’s plight


Then clarity bit the dying man

While lying in his bed alone

When he tried to share his wisdom found

No one heard his muted tone


Who knows the path the karmic pendulum swings

Destined to collide with this culture of greed

As man races to clone every life force

Monsanto's claim patent to nature’s seed


In a world where reindeers peddle corporate toys

Through ghettoes filled with crack

And a devoted priest hanged himself

When he discovered his Jesus was black


For love and hate are fraternal twins

That fertilizes the thought

In pursuit of truth down fraternal roads

Where souls are sold and bought


If truth lay within the seed

Point me the path to the virtuous fruit

Where angels slide down strip poles

Dancing for a devil in a suit


Good and evil war within us

To carve the character of our being

Some driven by inner rage, others inspiration

But all guided by forces seen and unseen


The earth, she turns too many times

Then blankets us with her sand

When wickedness creeps within the heart

The Most High guides the poet’s hand.