A breadbasket
has become a bowl of blood and mud.
The steel claws of hawks
crush concrete towers.
Peace shelters in cellars
bread is broken,
a thin soup stirs the dying.
A droning in the sky,
rabbit ears alert in a backyard cage,
a boy's hunger stole a carrot,
but it did not eat the rabbit -
not yet.
disputed authorship ' FOOTPRINTS'
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If wife is given love
at least up to the level of loved one
Say, one of his own children
A disputed family is saved
My goal is not the golden years,
So cut me down when in my prime.
To tarry on expired gears,
Would seem to me a waste of time.
With loved ones long before me gone,
What need have I to carry on?
I'll not be part to sad goodbyes,
With deafened ears and clouded eyes.
The haze of past, both good and bad,
Doth haunt the young, as well as old.
I never thought I'd feel this sad,
Nor fathomed fate to be so cold.
Here and now I'll have to cease,
And rest my heavy hand in peace,
Lest this page be drenched in tears,
With veins of ink as blurred as years.
Disputed
Remain among the living
Feed glory to the wispy trails
Of fresh salted tears
Though not to exaltation
To put on a pedestal
Lift on high
The very virtue of kindness
That greys even the brightest of souls
Give up, trudge on
Either way is the forked road
Greeting fate’s traveler as all
As all indeed are cursed to sin
And lie we may
Among harlots to the world
According to God’s say
Selling ourselves short
Faulted kingdoms to heaven
Dictatorship to he who sits
With soft hands as in home
The same be of spirit
Of sane mind, by will
Yet wicked of functional force
Gales of extinction inevitably
Cleansing the retardation
of over spun growth
until most truly all may
Remain among the living
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