untitled poem Jun 30,1999

Salt and spice
The scent hangs heavy
Permeating the air
Into unified stench
Bodies glisten, necks strain
Heads held high
Beasts of burden
Walk on by

untitled poem Oct 20,1999

Dancing twirling
Spinning free
Swing on
Then set me free
Words sounds
Voices one
Silence shattered
Forever gone
Walking running
Marching by
Bullets blood
Bodies lay

untitled poem Sept 26,1999

Hodge podge
Slush and muck
Water earth
Boulders Rocks
Houses perched
Precarious stance
Call the ministers
Get the press
Issue statement
Sad old fact
Classic case
Tis but God's act.

untitled poem Sept 24,1999

The night was still
Not abreeze was felt
I wondered at this silence
In its deafening presence
We might have spoken
We might have cried
I do not remember
But the silence of the night
The skies were starless
The moon hid its face
How distant all seemed
In the uncrushable quiet
We ought to have spoken
We ought to have cried
I remember now remorseful
As darkness gave way to light

Despair ... Feb 13, 2008

poised on crumbling ledge
pain embodied
at crossroads
yet too far out on the edge
stained, once healthy cheeks
now sunk sullen and bleak
futile search through swollen eyes
half blinded from tears cried
alone, afraid, anxious
disconsolate, despondent, desolate
forward or to retreat, reconsider
questions and more questions
precariously perched looking down
despair tips the scales
plunging silently
head first into oblivion
thud shatters
an otherwise noiseless end