09 November 2015

One Flew Over

Kindred spirit, battling demons too ferocious
to conquer with élan or wit,
Faces in crowds, the stink of yesterdays,
rise from dungeons of dread and flit.

When paths cross and roads meet,
where destinies are unclear;
peopled with memories of screwed up pasts:
A future confronted with fear.

When life and death become a sometime thing,
stuck in a child's-play video game;
plastic monsters with grotesque faces
plague the twilight of sometime shame --

armed with fake shotguns we shoot them down
but they return again and yet again --
Lend me a hand, o winged friend,
let us banish such forever pain.

Cross the rainbow to the morning star
that shines away the night,
in poetry starkly writ across
the sky in shadows of glorious starlight.

For, the skydiver confessed to real fear
of unopened parachutes as death hovered near

and that moments before the jump
one thought does wisdom lend:
Egos, fights, pettiness are nothing but
a vacuum when faced with the end.



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