Lady Liberty

Dated 18-January-2009

Lady, you are brought so low
Victimized, raped, tortured
Made mute and dumb
Left not even with your hands
To plead for hope
Your tears your only release.

All that you stand for stained
All you represent debased
All you hold dear defiled
Who has had
so little respect
For what you are?

Acts of the patriot have brought you down
Acts of the patriot have raped you
Acts of the patriot taken you hands
Acts of the patriot has stolen your tongue.

Acts of the patriot
Wolves have been better dressed as sheep.

Lavinia knows your pain,
She knows you suffer
She knows you weep
She knows your soul dies

Where is your Titus to bring revenge
Against the unjust rulers?
Where is the father brought to insanity
In pain over his daughter’s torture and rape?

Titus has passed away too soon
Laid to rest in a berth of passivity
Complacence
And apathy.

Time shall be you only succor lady liberty
No justice shall be done
against the emperor and his children.
Stand tall lady liberty
For one day you shall be healed
Or we shall all follow in your wake.

Waves

Dated 17-January-2009

The waves are breaking
Upon the blood red sunset shores;
Laying to rest the day
That haunts me like a dream.
Bits and pieces
No coherent whole
Floating in the air
Like bits of feather
Trying to grab them
Sends their flight erratic

Rock Bottom

Dated 15-October-2008

Scraping.
Scraping.
It’s dark here in the barrel’s bottom.
It’s kind of dirty, too;
There’s some slime.
No wonder no one wants
To root around down here.
UGHH!
What was that?
I have no idea.
I’ll just leave it alone.
By the way
Can someone throw me a rope?
And pull me out of here?
I don’t want to be here anymore.

Give

Dated 15-October-2008

Philanthropic Philistines
Assuaging their guilt
Giving just enough of their
Left over gild

They make public gestures
Without any care
And live lavish lives
Compassionately bare

The low ones are hungry
They cry in the night
But your TV’s and iPods
Drown out their plight

One day they will rise up
And ain’t this the bitch
Satisfy hunger
By eating the rich.

My Enlightenment

Dated 12-January-2009

Enlightenment
has nothing to do with light
Or radiance
Or holy auras
That’s all bullshit
And fucked.

Enlightenment
Is breath
And life
And peace

Enlightenment
Is breathing out all the fucking shit
All the baggage
All the bad thoughts
The shit you got
From your parent
From your teachers
From your friends and lovers
From school and tv
From culture and society

Enlightenment
Is letting go
Of all the things
That you don’t need
Don’t want
Don’t deserve
With each breath
Letting it go
Back to the shadows
Back into the dark
Letting it go
Getting rid of the weight
Getting lighter
With each breath
With each exhale
Letting it all go

And holding it all tight

The Caged Bird

Dated 12-January-2009

My existence is pockets of clarity
Opening in the fog of my life
Glimpses of the world as it is
Not as I view it.
Scenes not hidden
By the backdrops I push into view
Sweet
Simple
Unfettered
Free to be what it truly is.

I have no idea why the caged bird sings
We all sing
We are all in cages
We all sing
Though we sometimes forget the words
We all sing
Though sometimes out of tune
We all sing

But mostly we hear others
Their songs
Their melodies
Their rhythms
And sour notes
Forgetting our own song
Our own words
Our own lives
Ourselves
My existence is pockets of clarity
Or maybe it’s all just fucked

Statue

Dated 11-October-2008

The people who erected you are gone
moved on to other projects
erecting moments from the past
to call forth into the present
a time and place no longer known
but guessed at written by the victors
true history a story forgotten

Dreams

Dated 14-June-2008
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Does the dream set the mood,
Or does the mood set the dream
Do we have mood while we sleep,
Are they as linked as they seem?