Broken Back

Broken Back They use words like Cold And Crossing Sighs To describe something romanticised Obscured verbs In which to hide To hide Romanticised The suffering Without a name It asks you not to worry A vacant voice Verbalised Tears She cried Lies Nomenclature of disheartening Hope Borrowed between shadows Between hearts Flowers And chocolates At peace At last Unburdened Released Love Child Romanticised To a field of waving poppies Gently shook the rifles And slow blood let Picturesque And before God Such cruelty breathes animate Stand Brave Courageous Fool Dancing in the rain The paupers smile Romanticised smile Of a rich divide To beggar belief And it’s easy So very easy To explain away How life Is just made this way They use words like Freedom Romanticised acceptance Short words Of description To present an illusion Of perfection The good die young It could happen to anyone But only the good die young Young Children Anyone God Space Illusion Nothing to prove Romantic death Of death Who bides his time In skeletal black cloth And bargains away In celluloid The faces we can’t forget Those who told us We would never regret Anything The break scape The big escape A monumental world of landscape And freedom Beyond mountains Beyond worlds Beyond words Romanticised