"Don't you know?" Willie D. Johnson

Don't you know?

Willie D. Johnson
[wjohnson@bcbsal.org]

Don't you know-prolonged unpaid debt leads to uncertainty in our life?
It will kill us as certain as a case knife

Don't you know; our children deserve better than flocking from pillar to pole?
What we're producing is a generation beyond control

Our windmill life
is blowing us in all directions; first; you tell me
the "man" don't like you! and he's out to get you;
you don't have to take that stuff, so you split.

Don't you know, all of this is because, you refuse your faults to admit.
And to God you will not submit!

For endurance, you don't want to commit;
don't you know, these things will only get worse

But, I guess you don't know; your father, didn't know.
That knowledge itself would not simply blow.

Although the seed was not planted to grow; Don't you know;
you will only reap what you sow!
the time is now; for us all to know,
so that we will have knowledge to Bestow.

For if we don't know; what will we have in escrow?

Don't you know? Don't you know?

Poem © 2003 Willie D. Johnson, all rights reserved
appears here by permission

Author Notes

"Don't you know" was inspired by the need to reinforce self-responsibility. We live in a time of outside influence carrying more weight in our lives than I deem necessary. We must reclaim ownership of the out-working of our lives.

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