We try to tell them
but their ears are blocked
with the cotton wool of consumer dreams,
their children and their children’s children forgotten.
Images of a drowned tropical village flicker across the plasma screen.
Sodden walls and tumbled chimneys
strive vainly to keep above the rising tropical sea.
A child’s thin awkward naked body,
drifts past face down on an uncaring oily […]
Why is it always us and them?
I don’t think I’m guilty of perpetuating a cycle,
forcing my fellow blood to join hands and just circle round and round like a
dance.
I have never drummed and drummed into your ear or theirs,
that you people just wouldn’t understand us.
So best to leave us to our own little piece of […]
As young as I can remember, as long as I can tell I have always tried to hang with the boys. They defined cool and rebellious. Be guts, glory or gold; I would hang as freely as they hung off sickly orange summer streetlights, off the drooping branches of fall trees, off the rain gutters […]
godless heathens, and
our impure thoughts, and
our despicable actions, and
our foolish devotion
to a belief,
that burning dead grass,
chanting in tongue,
celebrating the sun;
not the Son,
will save us
from ourselves.
Pray for the rebels, that
let an old church burn,
not resurrecting the dead,
honouring the family long after
they died by their own hand,
grieving for the trees,
that built an old church.
Pray for me,
when I […]
Your day will start at two,
when the phone rings,
in the darkness, in the night.
It will rip through your soul, to the bones and memory.
Confused and alone,
you’ll speak to sobs, just sobs.
I saw the light, I saw the light,
He took off in the middle of night,
drunk and crying
and nobody saw him,
‘cuz they were all drunk
and you’ll […]
