This Poem was Submitted By: LoAnn Kay Post On Date: 2002-08-25 13:17:45 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Thoughts Upon The Wind

So many thoughts inside my head, So many feelings left unsaid, We look but do not touch. I look into your eyes and see myself. With words so soft I lift you from your shelf, To see where you have bled. You respond in gentle ways unknown to those about. Your body, eyes, hands and soul search mine to draw me out. As always, always I am here. She looks and leans into the wind of words. Watching, looking, hearing: a scavenger bird, Waiting, waiting for dying souls. A look, a word, a gesture? Who knows what made her dive. Upon her prey to pick and pull apart the sinews still alive And stuff them tightly into her bowel. The meal may seem honey to the taste But nourishment it lacks. It’s waste. And gives no lasting pleasure. But what of we, who live life in chains? Without the nurturing, only pain? We are as carnage on life’s road. The smell of decay brings flocks to share A feast of ample hearts so bare. We stand before them naked, unclothed. Will we allow this mob to eat? Will we drop our souls at their feet? And let them feast till all is finished? It seems that you prefer a cage To being eaten alive in olden age, While I want something better. I see your heart broken bleeding While caged, your mistress leaves unheeding Of your pain and gaping wounds. To me, it would be far better to be eaten alive Than to be caged and waiting for hell to arrive. And leave no chance but to be wounded. 

Copyright © August 2002 LoAnn Kay Post


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