Pityful Cows
they argued until all the cows came home or maybe
for the flies on the wall to rest disperse and achieve
what they do best with detritus and compost of time
pets are embraced by definition and its perspectives
discussions were belligerent and character forming
hard as Krupp steel and tough as seasoned leather
un-winnable because polar opposites lie far apart
accusations heartache and impossible agreement
it was the seventies and his father had survived the
war defeat surrender and bullets shot and received
followed orders and executed them with precision
closed up from self-inspection to save his own sanity
the son shaped by the student revolution’s ideals
was encouraged in school to question everything
to critique criticize challenge and to never accept
what wrongful authorities suggested by decree
milk curdled in one of the cattle’s fours stomachs
tasted bitter never lived up to the promise of peace
the insects wished to have been stealthy mosquitos
to inject their own sting into the skinful of attacks
the old man is long dead and worms had their feast
a wooden coffin only protects for a vey short while
the son looks back in awe fault and forgiveness
and hopes that the cows in heaven graze happily
14th August 2020
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2020
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