Tag: Muse in the Morning

Teach your parents well

Their children’s hell

will slowly go by

Even if you don’t care

about us

wish we would just

go away

leave your world

pristine

cleaned of the likes of us

Love that lasts

as long at least

as this forever

standing too close

to the ledge

separating

us from you

waits to see

if it will be denied

affirmation

watching painfully

those intent

on pushing us off

barreling toward us

while everyone else

silently bears

witness

The train of progress

moves down the track

unencumbered by those

left behind

abandoned

for the good

of an all too small

Twenty-one years

out of the closet

busy

authentic

productive

happy

self-assured

peaceful

in Love

Do we all walk forward

together

or are some of us

left behind

forever to be told

later

is the time

maybe in two or three

generations

things will change

magically?

Acts of abandonment

of common decency

litter our times

with inhumanity

so dense

as to require

skillful excision

using a scalpel

of hardened hope

and dreams made real

by the collective

efforts of people

with opened eyes

uncovered ears

and noses

capable of smelling

the stench of greed

which moves the planet

ever closer

to the edge

of catastrophe

Born into a game

I never wished to play

Predestined to lose

while someone else

controls the dice

Because a thought occurs

is insufficient reason

for it to require voicing

let alone dissemination

equal time

support

endorsement

Too many words

float in the ether

ethereal thoughts

about what could be

about a perfect future

hidden

by a fractured present

lived by wounded people

existing unsoundly

on a damaged planet

silently flogged

by the raging insanity

of individual greed

unkind cuts

mysteriously appearing

in the decaying flesh

of our better natures

The train pulled in

to the borderland

The fork in the road

of humanity divides us

into givers and takers