Smoke blooms in this uncouth air.
This is your garden
Of dust, fire curling
Into make-up upon their faces–
you smoothen out their bones into the ground.
Holes web asinine across rust.
This is your home
Littering the square, ashes aflurry
Smearing their shut eyes unfurl–
you scab for their bloody disuse.
Missiles are scrawled in celebrities’ names.
This is the drugged resent
Of Summer Ecstacy, Justified bells in curve
Where bullets blind them for triumph–
you cry for them and they stare without you:
Soldiers Trample For Your Liberation;
Ministers Guillotine For The Greater Safety;
Pockets Burst For Our Profit;
And your mothers ladle is glass
And your siblings cradle is melted
And your friend’s fable is a sheared watermelon
And You
A number A conspiracy A Nothing
And
you
nothing, for now. for i must find solace in my suffering i must i must im should must capture beauty love me in the midst of the this
Bloodshed.
- Author: fkoshk (Pseudonym) ( Offline)
- Published: May 13th, 2024 04:37
- Comment from author about the poem: Made this poem last year, around december or november. Quite straightforward, in all honesty. Y'know, if saints were reborn today, they'd probably be killed in a heartbeat. By the same people who claim to follow their teachings. Something around the lines of Jesus being "too left-wing" and "depraved" for interacting with the downtrodden. I'm not Christian, yet I do admit my strange obsession with the religion. Other than writing or making poetry... there's not much else I can do, is there? I would be arrested just for carrying around a sign with a watermelon on it, here. It wouldn't be the first either. I'm not rich, not a business owner. Not a man with capital, or the scion of a CEO. My government wouldn't pay attention to me. Funny, isn't it. Based on Justice and Equality. I understand things are hard. You have to make sacrifices. But how far does that go, until it is merely complacency? How far until apathy? How far until Profit over people? Or maybe I should just stop caring. Would be simpler, wouldn't it? For my own health. Who knows. I'm not free until all of us are free... or something like that. Who really knows; I couldn't tell you.
- Category: Sociopolitical
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