I Am Not Ordinary Man* Poem by David Keig

I Am Not Ordinary Man*

Rating: 4.8


I am death
I am destroyer
I am not ordinary man
I have kept all people faithless
Since the present world began.

I am Stalin
I am Hitler
I am everything you fear
I prey on people's consciences
And I am always near.

I am madness
I am anger
I am the cancer in the cell
I am the one that draws the line
Between what’s heaven
And what's hell.

I am not
The known grim reaper
I am not called Lucifer
I am courteous to strangers
And I listen
Very well.

I am Iraq
I am Bali
I've been to 'Ghanistan.

I'm not the devil
I'm imperfect
For I am simply Man.

* Reposted from a year ago because of interest in the 'cut down version' entitled 'Vengeance'.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Adryan Barnathan 02 January 2006

David......this is deep......and good on you.....continue on.........because. I realise, that you realised, we are all capible of being what we point our fingers at....a stupendous poem.....you really have banished the stigma of being all good.....we are all good and all bad......it's what we repel that is evil.....

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A. B. 02 January 2006

Reminded me of the song 'I'm human' by the smiths. Nice work. Peace.

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