We knew it would happen Tried to prepare Talked about how she could Be careful to Not lose the baby Met together Talked About how we felt Helpless ineffectual Unable to stop the inevitable How can we do the best we can Right now In this minute I showed my frustration Clear in face and body We can't stop this I hate pretending we can And today it happened They took her baby Tomorrow we will talk again And face the facts Start over Again
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A downbeat tale Bad luck misfortune And endless vodka Cheating stupidity and Grim faced suffering Over all the church rules In robes and ceremonial headress Speaking in riddles and tongues Should I care about This story these people I can barely watch Frustrated by the state And church bulldozing over Drunken hordes I have no patience to watch Is this my ignorance As with a violent relationship I ask why don't you leave How can people go on Day after day In this terrible world Where do the birds go During a blizzard What do they eat When the snow Covers every inch Piled up to here And out to there And yet when the sun returns Also come the birds Swooping over the Snowscape Playing in the day As if this was normal Just another Bird day I'm up then down Can't face the day then Power through it Can't write Crank it out What gives and why Is it just now These last weeks When I need to Finish the big write I'm telling myself Everything will be different After This is the fiction I go by To keep the days and nights and days Coming one after another And it will be over And I will be so glad Expand fill widen breathe Reach up catch the spirit Gently circle it and Guide it to the third eye Heal make healthy heal Pulse again heal make healthy Ripple in May I be happy Ripple out Let us all be healthy And let us heal Our loved ones Pulse healing from my mind My heart my breath Send it far away To heal the dear ones Heal them Make them whole She grew up rough On the street Southie Eastie Dad gone early With her brother To jail Mom's boyfriend the only Father she ever knew But he went to jail He killed himself So she had to find a daddy And had babies Two boys to love But love as she knew it Was screaming Then their daddy went to jail Mom was hitting her Baby daddy was hitting her She found a new daddy But this one had another love In a needle They spend a lot of time together Things aren't so good right now For the babies Insomnia is a thief Robs not just sleep But clarity of mind Focus memory Even happiness Health The next day is a slog Through confusion Listless trials Make sense of feeling Sensing seeing hearing But try to catch the thief And he becomes Even stronger Fuled by anger frustration fury Until bedtime when The robber returns again What is slower A sloth crossing the road Or a river barge Loaded with containers And how can someone See to steer They are piled high as a building And long as A city block Does someone stand At the very top and try To see where They are going I see no little tugs Nudging it along The right path But it glides on Inch by inch Past my window Until finally It is gone Calm now Quiet the beat Of pulse Pounding in my ears Breathe now I'm safe here and now No need to fear the past Will break down the door Peace now I've climbed so high Above the pit of trouble Away from danger But if I write about it And pulse roars Blood pounds Here in me forever |