From Cradle To Grave

In bands of endless sand, where life peeked through new The sunlight swatches skin, beneath cooked antique cloth Natives abide the ceased courier, pigeons plucking past Markets marked with clenched jaws, gravel grinded toes Cities etched by tribal cleave as dusty binoculars blur Mothers bearing children under an ever-blackened flag Godforsaken region once held clues of cradles edge Now crimson tears sift throughout the ink of lost ideals Below a leafy marquee, is aweary child in slumber To all, his eyes manifest To them, merely function Beautifully resting, looped in imaginations elastic Rituals rip open eyes, he is trained under the creed Final duty done today, under misguided mutiny Forfeited, as another guessed loanee of the gods Out, out! Tender light Through the open window that is life Illuminates eternity Mingling between sun and sea Little soul extinguishing the flames