Cry from the Heart

from a series of poems i wrote a few years ago - thinking of war and war again - internal and external.

part I

Tears run impulsively
bitter sea of colossal grief
cluster-bomb in my heart
for every life taken

Who are we to act like a force of nature
Self destruction the distinctive human trait

Holocaust created
not once
but NOW

Revenge
abort the revenge

The USA, the UK and Israel
Holy triangle of doom

Their bloody footprints left in
Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Tibet, Tchechenia, Cuba, Columbia, Nicaragua, Venezuela

Fear not the Arabs
Fear not the "Terrorists"
Fear not the Communists
Fear not the tree huggers
Fear the triangle of righteous doom
Fear the glorification of the apocalypse
Fear the mass consumerism
Fear the leaches who suck in and spit out
this planets energy

Doomsday in the heart
Doomsday in the mind
as the Inconvenient truth
about the destruction
the genocides
the mutilations
the endangered species
flow out like 1000 wounds

Will it heal
Will this heart ever beat again
this heart of hope
for humanity
As it heads towards glorious self destruction
yet again


part II

I feel your pain
I feel your pain
I feel your pain

Bombs, limbs, blood, tears, death, grief, anxiety, hatred, revenge, bullets, spit, split, tormented, crippled, infested, pain, fear

Bombs, limbs, blood, tears, death, grief, anxiety, hatred, revenge, bullets, spit, split, tormented, crippled, infested, pain, fear

I feel your pain
I feel your pain
I feel your pain

in my marrow


part III

Despair
rivers of despair
wounds
oceans of pain

Patriarch
Matriarch
ism
ism
ism

Means nothing to me
nothing at all

Flesh, blood, earth, dirt, gravel, sand
and that single yellow flower on that highland hearth
drowned in the silt of greed

This time
the times are changing
Into a dream of universal
equality

Please
don't look the other way
We are the same

I feel the pain

I feel the hope
This eternal ethnic bond
with each grain of sand
each grain of blood
infusion of humanity
Please let me be you
Feel your pain
Feel your healing

I move with her breath
within this planets womb

What are we
Aliens on this Earth
Parasites
Are we controlled by the external or internal parasite
of duality
of Heaven and Hell
Who made this hell
Who can undo what has been done
only you only me only us


part IV

I feel your pain
I feel your pain
I feel your pain

compassion, hope, joy, love, peace, light, abundance, oneness,
compassion, compassion, love, joy, rejoice
compassion, hope, joy, love, peace, light, abundance, oneness,
compassion, compassion, love, joy, rejoice

I feel your hope
I feel your hope
I feel your hope

magnifying

in my marrow


Living dead or alive

Every day I think about
all these people
dead or alive
So far away
yet so close
Missing them
–a state of mind

My desire for touch
is purly physical
To run fingers through thick hair
To hear familiar voices

I don't fear death
I fear the fact I don't fear it

I fear to be living dead
the walls close in around me
Six feet under in the daily routine

I fear to be living dead
That I cease to see the beauty
all around me
and the fact that life is
a countinious
miracle machine