Spreading the Dream

Million dollar fireworks light up 
the eastern sky

leaving red tracers between broken homes
and marking the rank of ordered followers

blackened by the smoke of oil money
smoldering
and a dream deferred
in the cradle of life
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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