Change change
like a chameleon do
from white to black
from brown to blue
just as to say;
that clothes are not the skin of the man
just as
skin is not the essence
shed that skin
it ain’t a part of you
change change
like a chameleon do
from white to black
from brown to blue…
Lou Syquia
Kumusta hô everyone once again.
I have chosen to share this poem with all of you, because i believe in equality no matter what race, skin color or nationality we might be. if anything we should take in considerration this poem in our own life's even if we dont like chameleons. lets look at the message behind the poem. for years and years now we humans have been fighting one another over are ethnicity's and the parts of land we can walk on and not walk on. which seems foolish to me because like a book i recently read " in the end all that matters are our family's and our friends. - Tuesdays with Morrie
Why do we continue fighting a war that means nothing. innocent people get caught in between and end up cutting there life's short others lose close loved ones and live in pain their remainders of their life's. i say lets quit with this bullshit and start concentrating on those in need. like the homeless or those who cant even afford a ruff over their heads or even a ride to get under a ruff. Life as we know it is getting more selfish by the minute. so like the poem says "clothes are not the skin of the man just as skin is not the essence" meaning to me that our life's are only borrowed for a period of time and instead of thriving for more and more material things, think about others and constantly remind yourself and others " Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value" - A. Einstein
Salamat po.
I have chosen to share this poem with all of you, because i believe in equality no matter what race, skin color or nationality we might be. if anything we should take in considerration this poem in our own life's even if we dont like chameleons. lets look at the message behind the poem. for years and years now we humans have been fighting one another over are ethnicity's and the parts of land we can walk on and not walk on. which seems foolish to me because like a book i recently read " in the end all that matters are our family's and our friends. - Tuesdays with Morrie
Why do we continue fighting a war that means nothing. innocent people get caught in between and end up cutting there life's short others lose close loved ones and live in pain their remainders of their life's. i say lets quit with this bullshit and start concentrating on those in need. like the homeless or those who cant even afford a ruff over their heads or even a ride to get under a ruff. Life as we know it is getting more selfish by the minute. so like the poem says "clothes are not the skin of the man just as skin is not the essence" meaning to me that our life's are only borrowed for a period of time and instead of thriving for more and more material things, think about others and constantly remind yourself and others " Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value" - A. Einstein
Salamat po.
Hello Marcel.
ReplyDeleteThis was one of the first poems I can truly say I liked. I didn't grow up with poetry, but when I started reading poems that seemed to speak to me, I began to appreciate poetry.
That's interesting that you use Einstein's quote to say that being true to yourself is the true value, which in turn suggests that our "skin" my make us successful, but it isn't at the core (essence) of who we are. In other words, "skin" represents the surface - our color, our cultural markers of identity, etc. And you make the claim that this "value" should be about social justice. Nice reading.
WOWWWW!!! You really dove deep to core of the meaning of the poem...I liked how you used other quotes to disguish the differences between our skin and our essence...you really made me think more about what kind of person I perceive myself to be. I enjoyed reading this blog about the Chameleon. ^_^
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