now the only name i go by…
is you!
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the majority, the 99%,
a new tidal wave of slavery,that feeds the wealthy,and starves the poor!robbed of human rights and dignity,faceless numbers in a line.jobless, homeless, hungry, and angry….again, bodies on the block!now more like Rome than Greece,we implode on ourselves!fires burning, storms raging,the howl of humanity’s voice…the bloodied shores weep and tremble!one people, many colors, battling for freedom,we’re…
dont try to sell me
with your streets of gold,and angelic harps…i am not interested!in the presence of God,(i didnt name her that, you did!) ,all your spiritual writingsbecome mere pornography,your church bells tiny bellson the legs of ants!i walk with her through povertyand despair, touching, reaching out,and touching.holding close the child that’s dying…sitting in the cell with the prisoner…
those same children
that swallowed Atlantis….those same children,starving ‘neath Africa’s sun….dead from the bombingsin Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon Iran….their bodies thrown into dumpstershere in the United States….dead on the borders,dead in the oil filled waters,dead on the cocaine streets,dead in the prisons…dead in the colleges,dead in the unemployment lines….dead on the picket lines,dead, handcuffed, and beaten….dying, and dead,…
it’s time for the
to stop shouting:‘God’s casting His judgementupon the earth! ‘God’s not doing this!we are!take responsibility foryour own actions!
i cannot judge
by the light that reaches…my eyes.i cannot understandthe ocean’s depths,by pressing the shell to my ears…and listening.i cannot comphrehendthe freedom of the wind,as i walk ‘neath the treesin the moonlight.but i can know lovethat moved whole mountains,and stopped eternity….in your touch!
simple shells,
and experience….once carried by life,now left behind,a gift? or just memory…echoing the soundof waves poundingsome far off shore….waiting for the handsof a child!