wherein lies the edge of beauty?

underneath a tin roof…your body praying for rain.or perhaps it’s just delusion,or memory twisted by passion,or what an old man settles forin the echo of his life!kissing’s like undressing,slowly turns the spit,not conscious of mirrorsor the need to hurry….soft words almost forgottenfall like stones in a bottomless well…and the only cry of passionis the hawk…

of Africa, of China,of Syria, of Israel,of France, of Italy….no more!citizens of the world!no longer can one countrymake it at the expenseof all others….the walls between us were lies,and they have fallen….now we are a peoplewhose homeland is family!there’s no other wayhumanity can survive!citizens of the world!

call it justice, the American way,call it the great lie! …’we have made an incrediblemess of this world…wars, greed, pollution,poverty, enslavement,human rights abuses,hunger, sickness, homelessness…that’s on us!you want me to believe…that God, in his infinite wisdom,is going to come and bail us out…what if God, in his infinite wisdom,showed up with a shovel,and a wheelbarrow…and…

tis blackberry winter…the earth groans, trembles,and shakes.birdsong and coffee,a warm place on the sheets.coat on the hook, shoes on the floor,but the body is gone.now its bad news, hate news,gunfire and heavy fog.night and day, black and white,the footprints all look the same.the tin roof whispers in rhymeto the cobwebs and shadows.the tree that fell…

for every hungry mouth a bowl of rice,clean water, and an embrace.for every country invaded by thirstfor oil…. a country invaded withshovels, picks, axes, and books.to rebuild, restore, reaffirm hope…..for every shallow grave,for every unmarked death….we adopt and take in,we heal with respect…..for every inhuman act,the acts of compassion….and in the search for forgiveness,we may…

but gives…money…buys possessions,owns you…love…heart broken,living pieces.war…impotent menwaving swords!death,body given,spirit taken.passion,rain falling,drops whisper!anger,fear frustrated,turning inwards.hunger,empty bowl,empty soul!lover,hears, feels,respects, touches.God,human faces,dawn’s body!