Once again,
The whisper of wind,
And no restraint!
Indomitable strain upon
A seasoned babe,
Imitation is a fool’s game,
I’m deranged!
Daughter,
Warn your children not to walk my way,
If not today,
Maybe tomorrow?
I can feel all of my parents
In dreams unspoken,
Pushing,
So subtle the means,
Leaves float in a basin,
See how lightly they tug at my sleeve,
Looking up with eyes wide open,
The river bleeds and bends the same
Red wine.
The bright river,
The river of death,
The river of tar and knowledge,
The river of opportunity.
It carries all the dead,
It waters all the crops,
I sat down and wept
As it coursed through my being!
An eternity of suffering
Was leaving!
I sit in the shade and wait,
An arid waste,
All of it,
Such a waste,
I found no options!
Only death!
I cry to you, Son of man,
You do nothing--
I need to be free.
I refused all counsel,
I refused all grief,
A dark tide swept over me,
I was beset by visions--
Sights and sounds unknown
Crashed around my bed with violence.
I behaved like a beast,
'Drunk down savageness,
Not turned away but fixed my eye,'
Like a creep
I looked on in delight
As I fell evermore out of reach.
Ishouldhavebeenapairofraggedclaws
scuttlingacrossfloorsofsilentseas
King of all kings,
Babe of all babes,
Like a lamb I came to slaughter,
Mothers, Fathers,
Look in my face,
Why should I escape?
By what grace?
The wheel that turns the hand
To receive the supplication of a dead land,
Is still the same,
Noname.
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