Smileless faces,
Hateful words
Painful actions,
In tumultuous worlds.
Do unto others,
Before they do unto you,
Is this now the golden rule?
It’s not the one I knew.
I try to soar above,
Above all the distrust,
But, I’m still left wondering.
If we can ever liberate ourselves
From our emotional sarcophagus.
Categories:
smileless, angst,
Form: Light Verse
crimson pain pours out of his broken side
this time though the bullet anger tore deep
in his eyes life flashes a show in slide
only in this film actors play to keep
his mom a memory mixed with hunger
never again was there love thereafter
his father a picture of a stranger
now love’s a stranger, revenge his master
smileless faces find him dying in pain
frowns paint their view of his broken body
in the tide of eyes his face rang no name
just a gangster they said, just nobody
prisoner of neglect in anger and pain
rage left a veil of pain, and red stain
updated July 2016
Categories:
smileless, death, pain,
Form: Sonnet
As I walk these streets of sadness
Everywhere désolation and madness
Bars that keep the crazy out
And like a jail people cry and shout
Please set me free from poverty
And let me know serenity
Yet still they walk with smileless
faces
Living in such desolate places
Landfills where they shouldnt be
A life that seems pure misery
It seems the only break they find
Is alcohol that numbs their mind
Where such diverse cultures mingle
Youd think youd see more than brillo
and needles
Bums and dealers walk the night
Many races pick pointless fights
I look around and see walking dead
With fear ringing throughout their
head
Life here is not as i expected
Havannahs streets just plain
neglected
I thought theyd all be happy to be
free
Not fighting and hating so
prejudicely
I thought in Miami theyd welcome
me
Instead its like I have HIV
And as this gloom settles around
You can almost here an eerie sound
Of tears and pain that calls to me
To hang my head in utter misery
And I know that i can no longer be
Living muserably in Floridaas Miami.
Categories:
smileless, places
Form: I do not know?
What has happened?
A break in the rain
No more thoughts clouding my mind
Finally I've come to a turning point
No more crying myself to sleep
No more smileless days
No more wasting my life
A chance to make the most of these days
Life is short, so make the most of it
You get to pick your arguments
So pick good ones
You choose your mood
So stay happy and smile big
Categories:
smileless, happy,
Form: Free verse
We have been shot
And left to die!
Will let us?
But you wonder
''Who shot them?''
Yes, we have been shot
Shot!
By Poverty!!!
It shot us!
It is shooting us!
Will you let it
Shoot and kill us?
It is a robber
It came
Suddenly,
Like the Christ's coming
Unannounced!
Nay, it never left
After then!
Now,
We are bleeding
From its shots!
Clothless
Foodless
Homeless
Joyless
Smileless
Laughless
And,
Hopeless!!!
We are
Licking our wounds
Chewing cuds
Drinking our own blood
Oozing from our wounds!
So we ask again
Will you watch us die?
Will you rescue us?
Or
Will you say
Rot with your killer?
We wait
Though we wait not!
Categories:
smileless, absence
Form: Blank verse