<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">My Own Two Feet</span><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Poetry/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Poetry/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Abu Malik<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My pockets are empty as they are too often<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The crease in these old jeans is too hard to soften.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So, people see me coming from miles away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And they poke their friends with a jab and say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Hey, look at him. Ain’t<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>he strange?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Look at that. Thin as a page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Where does he live? Do you know?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No. Wait. Stop. Be quiet ‘till he goes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is he gone now? Yeah. But his steps are slow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I guess there’s no hurry to get home to the rats and the crows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Or the dusty floorboard that he calls a bed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yeah, but he’s got all the room in the world to rest his head.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That’s true. I do. And I sleep to dream.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The unconscious mind is more real than it seems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In here my hope is real.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And I don’t worry about those who kill or steal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So, I’m comfortable here on my own two feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Later tonight God and I will finally meet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And the world will be quiet except for the cheers;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nations of people without pain or fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A world full of hope and eyes open wide<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Where hatred and bigotry can no longer hide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And hands of every color take hold of each other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And every woman is respected as a sister or a mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So, I’m closing my eyes to finally see<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A brand new world where every human being is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And the only thing I’ll need when I walk down the street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Are my two empty pockets and my own two feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>