Harrowed Life

Quivering thunder of your ending heart,
an echo of love soon to be hollow.
We once hearth, like embers pulled, die apart.

Like moonrise anew, your growing palor,
confessing whisper ends futile revolt.
Strength, droughting river and life now harrow.

quicksilver

A quicksilver wall challenges her gaze,
lifeless, impassive, withholding judgment.
Inside grows life, outside burns blaze.
Hate smiles untoward, taunting resentment.

Green arms of life, charred black without trace,
maddening destruction, nurturing bereavement.
Quicksilver blind to inner good faith,
doesn't understand she can love mistreatment.

being

a life that leaves,
a sign of pain.
a life she berieves.
a sign to remain.

a love for one.
a future is struck.
a love is undone.
a future turns dusk.

a new beginning.
a shredding sorrow.
a new undoing.
a tearful morrow.

Memorial Day in memoriam

whose guilt will call,
for justice to fall?

for brothers in arms,
embraced by war's harms;

slaves who have bled,
diamonds stained red.

for animals' skin,
now haute couture sin.

oceans' whispering breath,
screams of imminent death.

for those who resist
swastika'd communist.

Tibetan monk's chant,
red sickle has stamp't.

for The People's blind trust,
raped by dictator's lust.

Muslim pride shorn,
Jewish life torn....

for child's ray of smile,
perversion turned vile.

ideals who've fallen,
ill and forgotten.

for whom should bells toll,
if not for us all?

poison

she flirts with the rain,
deciding her pain.
she fights it in vain.
her ordeal's just started.

she's lost and ungarded.
her fight is halfhearted.
has her spirit departed?
it's never the same...

her trusted refrain,
in truth and in name.
what poisons her brain?
it ends as it started.