So many murders it's overkill
but no one cares on Capitol Hill
and some are less concerned
it seems to me
with the killing of the living
(whose taxes pay the wages of sin)
to each U.S. Supreme Court employee
than that of the unborn
or perhaps I should be more forgiving
tho' lives are broken they remain unspoken
on the Washington White House South Lawn
but when someone says,
'Guns don't kill people, people do,'
it drives me to vexation
as I've never heard someone died
of a drive-by strangulation
Have you?
Hands
Crowd my neck
squeeze me of life
suffocate my mind
cruel
Calculated
Cold blooded
strangulation
darkness shrouds morn’s dawn
pollutants cover the sky ~
breathe slowly or die
01-November-2022
heart invites us in
our hardened stance heeds it not ~
a strange defiance
22-May-2022
Slow strangulation by our hand
Ego based our fulcrum
It’s time now that we understand
Toxic residuum
On shift from head to heart
Fears and desires depart
Each life breath, a new start
Coagulation
Slow strangulation
23-January-2022
Quietus
Little kids who go to bed
Very often wake up dead
Around their necks the blankets wrap;
While they sleep, their necks go, "Snap!"
Wake up choking in the night
Find the blankets tied on tight
Yank and pull the awful noose
Die because you can’t get loose.
From the ongoing series Lucifera's Questionable Daycare Poems & Stories.
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