Purple Heart

"Purple Heart" We are watched surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses the race marked out for us our days we count as numbers hidden within our flimsy armour our transgressions softened peccadilloes we are ignorant of most wisdom it is unseen, we continue to read the words, somewhere, the end chapter keeps us guessing it’s a hard-edged smoke-filled revelation we the forgiven unforgiving shell-shocked like ptsd turtles heads pulled in hiding true selves our minds are trip-wired we protect our mortality from pulling pins we are voodoo dolls made of straw, safe within our frail enclosures, joking about ridiculous myths that are just stories avoiding exposure Perhaps the 11th hour a superstition, is approaching closer, ever clearer, creeping nearer we are just about full circle waiting for the tide to water-mark us we wait for the inevitable we always guess what that is we are puppets held dancing by strings we are dropped by the puppet masters damp and submerging shell-shocked green turtles like shooting ducks we are the immovable carnival kewpie dolls frivolous and plastic stuck on the line drawn evasive waiting for cloudy invasion at the Cross-Road heads pulled in hiding true selves our minds are trip-wired we protect our mortality from pulling pins we are the new veterans of the unseen something we the forgiven unforgiving shell-shocked like ptsd turtles ultra green, constant in our conspiracy theories ignoring our bleeding Heart of Purple always seated in the Place of Angels (LadyLabyrinth / 2020) "Agnus Dei"/ Samuel Barber https://youtu.be/LjJ9TDdQUdY "What if none of it happened the way I said? Would it all be a lie? Would the wreckage be suddenly beautiful? Would the dead rise up and walk?" (excerpt, "Beautiful Wreckage", Bill Ehrhart) Evasive, adj. tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, especially by responding only indirectly. "Beautiful Wreckage", Bill Ehrhart https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52766/beautiful-wreckage Bill Ehrhart, American, Vietnam War Veteran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Ehrhart Purple Heart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart The Colour Purple and The Colour Violet https://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-purple.html