Natures Death
Alter the tree;
the naked moon and the sky that holds her secret.
My amity gone –
son of the morning, knight of the lonesome night,
Red like the slaughter of the mountains.
Animate her shallow mind;
mind’s eye sees a thousand deaths
And dark like the midnight sky,
audible voice; do go,
a slow --
Into the still of the morning tree;
who waves like a treasury
Hold memory; and she shall rest in May
that itches at the learnable mind –
And the time it takes, the caitiff giant;
who doesn’t strike the criminal down for his crime
And he who sleeps, a sleep with ease,
Courageous be,
like the mysteries of societies and the land that seizes romance.
Bright! into the light,
I cannot jump!
I cannot whisper to the winds;
lay on the cool grass that brushed against my ankles as a child
I cannot live nor can I cry
like the wondrous heights in creations avenue
skies that are dark;
cut from the world, alone and alone
Like the cars on life’s deserted road.
Ghastly beast, it’s made me,
Others fall, and mothers ball
Ghastly monster!
who hears our babies cry for their mothers
Cry, Cry..
For their short-lived lives;
for
The shore, I can see, but the shores not for me,
I’m dead like the still of the morning.
Copyright © Bo Williams | Year Posted 2010
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