impulse warns the fly:
the spider web is knotty ---
it gets ensnared, yet
When law and order broke down on the street,
And madness drove the mob with no retreat,
They tore the city's heart with fire and claw,
Youth in recklessness thrills, yearn for war.
But only those who've witnessed war's cruel face,
Can truly cherish all that peace can embrace.
A youngster clamoring for battles to wage,
Knows not that war brings death and endless rage.
Until, suddenly, hundreds fall before your eyes,
And by a mere whisker, you escaped demise,
A bullet spins past, grazing your ear,
And you question yourself, Am I still here?
Or have I gone there, into the great beyond,
Where souls depart, where life shred its bond
Then you pinch your cheek, to feel your own skin,
To confirm you're alive, and not a ghost within.
Only then will you begin to comprehend,
The true worth of life, preserved from reckless end.
I lost my mind
somewhere
between the seconds ticking
God left
and the devil punched in
Stray winds
dark and long
blew coldly on my paper sails
as
things I thought I knew
sank away
down into lightless fathoms
And when
in answer to my begging letters
a bashful dawn bled in
I made her promises
that somewhere
deep within
I knew
I’d only go and break
tapping on the bottom of the chair,
hoping for an alteration of essence
strictly of the background noise
withstanding only what i can hear
i endured a barrier around a chasm,
one within my body,
to which the walls are water
and the center is my breath
i may drown for the recklessness of my visits,
on red pluses and shimmering silver
a peculiar feeling where i dont do much
and everyone else does
its much like living in a tomb
how of course i would never know,
i have never lived in a tomb,
but something tells me its not far away.
If recklessness,
Doesn't leave the rudder of humanity's boat
Into prudence hands,
Man would soon have to face the typhoon of
Nature's wrath!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
13 June 2021
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