Gene Trees

What say you, when the rent is due?
Why shrill squalid souls for cheap wine?
Your children await greens and bread,
swollen stomachs of dark unrest.

Ghosts permeate their seams of wood
dry-rotted, while termites seek skin
of the oppressed, daunting failed light,
happy in joyless dreams, do tell?

Graves tremble with resurrecting
grace, revealing hard pale secrets 
told to wander the halls of minds
uncovering disgraces of blood.

Welcome pain and celebrate you,
open the portals of the gene tree.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 1/23/2018 3:31:00 PM
I son't know what to say Sona, You poem is truth and it hurts tHat there is so much pain in this world, We are responsible for starting it now we must take up the burden of our own creation and change the world for all..
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Date: 1/20/2018 6:31:00 PM
The underlying beauty in this poem is truth. Graves, pain, ghost, cheap wine tell me I'm in here somewhere.
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Sona Wilae
Date: 1/21/2018 5:45:00 PM
Sadly millions of us are in here somewhere...may we wake up and live. Thank you for your comments.
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