Free Cee Heralded By Heartlessness
HERALDED BY HEARTLESSNESS
One simple, soft and soothing handshake
that's all it would take
to make an old man happy who once had a family of five
but now only he and one other are alive
somehow he had survived two years shy a of hundred years old
he' d defended his country in World War one and two or so i've been told
and paced a hundred thousands floors
while walking through the same amount of doors
one son was killed by the ravages of a disease dedicated to only a few
people who understood the plague and those who never knew
I hear talk of a once beautiful woman and wife
and how, for some reason, she'd taken her own life
two other sons died for innocuous reasons heralded by hate
and long ago the aged man had forgotten every damnable death's date
he just knew they were gone while he still walked the earth
strolling down Bleakmore Street with not an extra-head of cattle's worth
two years longer and a century would have gone by
two more years and a hundred years were growing nigh
but those two short years would become shorter because of ********
when one gang's gun would accidentally puncture the old man's heart with a bullet
© 2012.....copyright PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~
Copyright © Jeffry Cohan | Year Posted 2012
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