Each glow has been filtered
Down a line of education
Memories clouded
By acid rain
And electromagnetic radiation.
In spite it all
Each effort
Each consciousness
Each advocacy
No singular action could resolve
Bitterness we all so feel strong
Yet must we search on?
Should we seek to find answers
So desperately within our reach?
Should we gamble and risk,
Dream and desire,
Fight and protest,
Gripe and lament?
The glow, ever glow,
Keep the strings taut.
Tag: bitterness
Bitterness (day 469)
The bitterness that rolls off my tongue is like ice cream on a hot summers day
Filthy and dripping and fit for the butcher to hang up and beat
Stuck walking down alleys with a stench so bad it curls the hair on the back of your neck
Piss that’s been brewing, batch upon batch without any relent
And a scowl that scares even the grungiest of vermin about at this hour
A scowl that reaches the street lamps and dims their shine
A scowl that pounds each footstep 3 inches into the pavement
A scowl that doesn’t betray even the door that is unlatched
As is screeches it’s way open in the dead of the night
You don’t understand the pain that I’m in
Bloody knuckles on my face that scratch away my identity
You heal me, I heal you and
All that has been lost over the years of our struggle
Has been thrown into baskets that crawl with tangible evidence
No speculation at the scars that mark this history
Do not knock on this door
This bitterness that will not lighten your day
(day 142)
Publicly
You are Queen Sheba
Privately
You wreck the silk you lay upon
And cruelly you are
Within all your membranes
Your twisted circles
And battered gestures
Servants who respect
Desire to please
Are treated like vermin
Amongst your knees
To late tomorrow
For the love has all gone
The bitterness reigns
And your friends have all blown away
Into the blue skies of a new day