Five Chastushka
The rich
Are resentful
Of the poor
Feel
They have to
Pay more
Taxes
Then the poor
Hence hide
Their
Money
Yet still
Salute their
Nations
Flag
And show
Hunger for wars
It is profitable
And
The poor
Can do
The soldiering
Mortal Man
The water broke
Jubilation
Soon a child be born
The pain
Has gone
The battle
Is done
Can`t see or speak
Slowly life
Ebbs
And a life
Is extinguish
Sometimes
The unspoken
Relief
Is etched
In mourners
Faces
Providence
When
They tore down
The statue
Of the dictator
Left
Was two
Rusty tubes
Hanging
in their
What happened?
To the tube
We will never
Know
Perhaps
They were used
As drain pipes
Pipes
Aloneness
Around and
Around
He skated
In a shallow
Winter lake
Till he fell
And could
Through ice
Yellow grass
Standing erect
Ballet dancers
Waiting for
The cue
He got up
And skated
In moonlight
1949
Years flew by
Like
Autumnal leafs
And in a flash
He looked
Into his past
Homestead
Five milking
Cows
A horse
Fifty sheep
Hens enough
To service a cock
Simple life
Hard work
Swills
Manure
Collected
For the soil
Swills
For the pig
Seasons flew by
Hasty clouds
I was fifteen
Bus back to town
A new life
Youthfulness
I forgot
Only now
Do I remember
A time
Of contentment
Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen | Year Posted 2016
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