The Mercenary

Just when you think memories die
They say your life flashes before your eyes 
Silent nights 
Scripts of peace in a new born life
Hunger in days
Taken back less for what poverty weighs
A couple visits to I-C-U 
Now as a ghost I see you
Pain inhabits reflection 
My anger and aggression 
Smiles and faces
child’s and different races 
In my final poem 
I lay it down a mercenary
Look to heaven with no commentary
Double jeopardy
A sinner plagued with leprosy
Broken jewels 
In hands of an innocent man
It's going to be a little blood shed 
For the faces that weren't fed 
Walk as mortals on the day of the dead
Even in God's hands there’s a little bloodshed
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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