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
Copyright © Nicholas Rush | Year Posted 2015
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