Safe Travels
I walk dark
Mid night camouflage my face
Provide sanctuary against
Malicious souls and deadly spirits
Who seek to pick my life to insanity
Who offer my body up as road kill
A decade ago, five years ago, yesterday, tomorrow;
Smiles bright as the sun in mid sky
Grins at dusk
Sneers at twilight
Mocks mid night;
Flesh pick from
Blue black brown bodies
Peel back by hot coal
Set to noose five hundred years of dreams;
I slide through the darkness
Naked
For safety
Mid night camouflage my likeness
Blinds malicious souls and deadly spirits to my breath;
I watch
Listen
As siblings dressed in multi-colored joys
Are picked insanely from life
Torn from the fabric of their mid day lies
By truth of white fire
Rope
Tar
Blood.
Copyright © Carol Marie Webster | Year Posted 2007
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