The Tears of a Crowd Forming

Neville

The Tears of a Crowd Forming

 

Hark, and come closer,

what is it you

feel through the soles

of your feet ..

Can you hear them

assembling and

numbered, each ragged

and real ..

Queuing in line and such

vast numbers ..

Unsightly, uneven in row

upon row ..

Yet as yet, still frightfully

ordered

and neatly composed ..

However,

take note, before long

the sounds

you shall hear will be those

of our tears

forming and falling, in some

kind of obscene

and collective defeat ..

Indeed ..

What began as a trickle,

now rages

outrageously, like a swift

flowing river

of saline corroding, all that

it touches enroute ..

So hark and come closer ..

Pray what

can you taste, through

your nose,

your palms, your tongue

and your throat ..

No doubt nothing but fear

and adrenaline ..

So fight it, come closer

stand directly

behind me and hold fast

to my skirts

Oh’ and pray, keep both

your eyes tightly shut ..

For I am afraid

whilst there may be no

scenic route near ..

There may yet be more

than enough,

sorry sights, for both of us ..

And be sure

not to look at the babies ..

Torn from their

own mothers breasts,

nor at too many freshly

dug graves

that might otherwise,

whisper

your name, as you pass ..

And if you can

keep far away from the

lime pits because

they will blind and will

burn you ..

While the dogs roam

everywhere

free and unchecked ..

Snapping blindly

and drawing blood if

they can, or they think

they can ..

And don’t be fooled

by the teeth overflowing

from buckets ..

Each pulled for the gold

they contain ..

But now and then tho’

more randomly

for nothing but fun ..

Then later,

shorn like beasts for

the hair on

their heads from which

we all make

first rate ghetto blankets

these days and our

famed winter mattresses ..

But instead, fall soundly

asleep without

heads full of nightmares ..

Or blinded by

glare from the arc lamps ..

Bouncing off

yellow stained cloth stars

haphazardly set

against a backdrop of hate ..

Just ripe for pinning

come morning, to writhing

grey mountains

piled high with blue striped

pyjamas ..

Smelling maybe more thirties

perhaps, than two

thousand and twenty something ..

 

  • Author: Neville (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 13th, 2023 03:18
  • Comment from author about the poem: I hope we never hear such sounds again .. but am not so sure the way things are going
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Users favorite of this poem: Bobby O, L. B. Mek
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  • Fay Slimm.

    That horror resurrected in prosaic clarity will bring shudders and more to those reading your avidly penned descriptions of the thirties with its despicable behaviour of uncaring insanity - - with lessons learnt the future should never produce sights and sounds of such crowds forming again --- or at least we hope so with all our heart............x

    • Neville



      I don't know what got into us both .. I mean me and my pen .. a sign of these uncertain time ... perhaps .. glad you could see beyond the moment tho Fay .. x

    • Bobby O

      “What began as a trickle.” Your phrase conjures visceral and tactile image and as you build the story we journey with and we learn. Nice write, great read. You got it going on.
      P. S. I took the Title as a play on that famous Smokey Robinson song. “Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid, smilin’ in the public eye , while in my lonely room I cry”

      • Neville



        Thanks a bundle Bobby O .. a much appreciated visit sir

      • orchidee

        A sensitive write N - though I don't know anything about Smokey R.

        • Neville



          sounds fishy to me ... 🐟🐠🐟🐭

        • Jerry Reynolds

          A fine write, Neville. Nature does not reward children who won't learn.

          • Neville



            You aint no ordinary mosaicist now are ya .. Hawkeye sees the world as it is and I am so glad he's on my side .. Cheers Jez

          • MendedFences27

            I share your anxiety about where the future will go. Once again, the Hate-mongers are rising.

            • Neville



              It is without doubt, a most disconcerting time Phil .. Thanks for the visit and for reassuring me I'm not the only one .. Neville

            • L. B. Mek

              'of our tears
              forming and falling, in some
              kind of obscene
              and collective defeat ..
              Indeed ..
              What began as a trickle,
              now rages
              outrageously, like a swift
              flowing river'
              (so true, worded so acute)

              'So fight it, come closer
              stand directly
              behind me and hold fast
              to my skirts
              Oh’ and pray, keep both
              your eyes tightly shut ..'
              (Ha! You lead I'll try n keep-up
              dear wise Kilt loving, exhibitionist
              😉)

              'Bouncing off
              yellow stained cloth stars
              haphazardly set
              against a backdrop of hate ..
              Just ripe for pinning
              come morning, to writhing
              grey mountains
              piled high with blue striped
              pyjamas ..'
              (We, MUST NEVER FORGET!
              how it all started, with those
              'yellow stained cloth stars'
              to identify and BRAND
              those, deemed inhuman
              and hated, because
              'some'
              dogmatic text, millenniums ago
              blamed them
              for the murder of a character
              labelled
              as a deity creator, and 'Father'
              to all of existence
              including, those very same Jews!
              'some'
              try to forget, by the logic of that
              'same'
              lore, they worship
              how these very same Jews
              are also 'HIS' children...
              yeah, what 'Father' wouldn't appreciate
              the MASS, attempted Genocide
              of 'HIS children'..
              yeah, stuff that up your
              self righteous, 'GOOD BOOK'
              you brainwashed zealot morons)

              • Neville



                ...................................................... Thank you M .. N 🕊️



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