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February 22, 2008
The Wall
They say that it is necessary
As they look the other way
Hoping to not see their eyes
Their sweet faces smudged with the earth
Their swollen, heavy hearts filled with hope
Government men, dressed in camouflage
The kind that never build bridges
Pushing their way into our world
“We are homeland security
We must seize this land”
... Who’s homeland?
From afar it looks so small
Stretching like a long, hungry serpent
Slowly and surely stuffing itself
With the solemn will of others
Closing the chance to dream
Souls lost in the vast, dry dessert
With thirst that will never be quenched
Give us your tired, your poor, your hungry
And we will put up a wall in your face
Our hearts spilled and our spirits empty
Fallen angels, broken dreamers
Posted by kay at 02:36 PM | Comments (0)
February 13, 2008
Dream Poets
There they are with their words
Spreading like fresh, warm honey
Their sweetness so strong an attraction
Our mouths water for the sticky truth
As it melts into an inducing cure
Our ears saturate in disbelief
Like music flowing from natural sounds
In some rhythm made simple and most familiar
Yet, only a few are able to speak such magic
Even in their sleep they dream away
Words coming in mystical phrases
Forming the story in a twist of new hope
We look to them from our broken houses
Our weary solitude and discontent
Pleading our cases from our own faded shadows
When light cannot seem to shine our way
Our distant memories search to remember
As they, the dream poets reflect on us
The brightest light of our own true heart
Posted by kay at 03:48 PM | Comments (0)