conquer and invade…

to ask… after 40 yearsof…working…..daylight………to………..dusk….feeding someone elses dream…America the great,…America the fallen,can…you…..not hear?can…you…..not…….feel?the men and womenthat built your highways,your cities and towns…worked your mills,your factories, your farms,are crying out!we have to eat too!we need shelter!we need hope!honest hard working people…is this…how you……pay us back?do you remember our names?

my thoughts…for a moment your eyes flashed,for one eternal moment!

bodies without heads,strewn in the sand.the taste of gunpowderon my lips.i bow, but cannot pray!the sound of the oil rigs,the coarse rhythm of greed.take and destroy, take and fulfill!the cry of sea life,the gurgling choke,soon to be the childrenof flaccid men.buildings like bodies,stripped empty and bare.the memories smellof life that once was.empty, and pulsing,with the…

and the super highway.i am the dammed up river,and the valley plush.i am the blacksmith’s anvil,and the super computer…i am the stockyard full,the closed business meeting!i am the doctor, the lawyer,i am the weaver, the mechanic…the degree that hangs on the wall,and the one written on calloused hands.i am the lover killed in a jealous…

your lips that color the night skyin deep layers of black…your animal spirit runningthrough fields in the moonlight…the taste of your flesh,your blood on my chin…the howl and the hoot,and then the great stillness…the earth shakes and tremors,great waves rise from the sea…and the wind itself lonesome,fumbles with the latch to your door..the snow fast…

fallen multicolored leaves,turning, crumbling, dissolving…rainbows of flesh,returning to the source,feeding new beginnings!joy!breathing, touching,listening with the heart!the chance and the gift,another day, another moment!joy!someone to talk to,someone who cares!who sees you just like you are,and still loves you!joy!the prayers of bare limbs,reaching out and upward,with gratitude for what has been,and the promise of what comes!joy!deep, unfathomable,…