BODIES...

Bodies…

Young and old, beautiful and disgusting

Flesh wound open and sore, shut and oozing

Soul wound dripping and gripping

My insides like the nervous beating of a new born heart

Bodies like quivers of questions that are shot

Songs like arrows of broken thoughts

Whizzing past vacant stares and swollen pasts

Across to another part, of the world…

bodies that come in all shapes and size

vehicles of brains and the deceptions of mind

instruments of change and windows of light

withering like autumn, dead by night

pain flowering like the first spring rush

pain beating the music out of mush

pain crawling out of a baby’s blush

pain in the seventeen year old skull crushed

pain that makes you look away

pain that makes you fake a smile and say

“pain is not present that much today!”

Pain that makes you swallow and pay

Anger

Anger in the crooked smile received

Anger in the bubbling pot of make believe

Anger is served every day, please take and leave

Anger today is the only reprieve

Anger anger at the mother

Anger the son and one another

Anger anger looking across the bars

Anger is justice and anger is last

Bodies,

Bodies are caving and falling in haste

Bodies are hidden and bodies are chased

Bodies are pure and bodies are chaste

Bodies are healthy and bodies are crazed

Bodies are valued and bodies are watched

Bodies are buried, found and tossed

Bodies are abandoned most of all

By those who lived in them and lost

Bodies were made of food and thought

Bodies were temples of joyous gods

Bodies were children dancing naked in the rain

Bodies were dust, blood and stain

Bodies were trees with seedling swings

Bodies were just another thing

Bodies are growing older now

Not just in age but in the sins we allow

Bodies within and bodies without

Please do not stay blind throughout

Bodies please look at other bodies now

Chopping blocks of city below, power towers above

Bodies bodies hurt everywhere

Blood and gore have lost their glare

The sun has set on the face of despair

Have to tell my story somewhere

Bodies bodies everywhere.