Wednesday MorningThe cold air piercing my lungsThe copper-coloured leaves,As kamikaze pilots,Plummer into the green sea.The moon,Why are you out?You come without warningTo watch over usHere one minute, gone in another.The iced autumn windsPrickling,Tingling at my bare limbsAsserting its presence.The sunlight tickling,Teasing,
There was a time when I was happy.Although it happened only once,T'was enough.Never shall I forgetI was innocent till thenGone are the happy daysHe's not to blame, obviously.Thanks brain.
Years of wandering aimlessly,Or purposely through the mossThrough the trees.Years of historySlowly dyingSlowly dying because of us.Because of us.Because of you.Because of me.Because of them.Birds used to reign the skies;Now, these metallic vultures reign the airs.Orang-Outans used to roam freely amongst the trees,Manatees among the seas.No more excusesOr ignorance:
I would not feign a single sighNor weep a single tear for thee:The soul within these orbs burns dry;A desert spreads where love should be.I would not be a worm to crawlA writhing suppliant in thy way;For love is life, is heaven, and allThe beams of an immortal day.For sighs are idle things and vain,And tears for idiots vainly fall.I would not kiss thy face againNor round thy shining slippers crawl.Love is the honey, not the bee,Nor would I turn its sweets to gallFor all the beauty found in thee,Thy lily neck, rose cheek, and all.
Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terriblewhips,And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the treeShrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship'sWeird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously.Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slenderlashWhistling delirious rage, and the dreadful soundOf a thick lash booming and bruising, until itdrownedThe other voice in a silence of blood, 'neath the noiseof the ash.
"Heavenly Father" -- take to theeThe supreme iniquityFashioned by thy candid HandIn a moment contraband --Though to trust us -- seems to usMore respectful -- "We are Dust" --We apologize to theeFor thine own Duplicity --