to discuss
When and why
With you
Coats became jackets
As a sign humans
Became modern
Since it circled
A time closer
To my birth
Than yours
Then I saw
A slow moving
Man
With coal colored
Skin
In worn denim
Overalls
His smirk told
Me about
When and why
Phones rang
Incessantly non-detachable
From walls
……his black skin; your blue eyes,
Blond hair on green grass
He simply quietly sat
Staring at his meal
Waiting
We sat on a prairie
Thinking best
To think
Rather than wait
For all the devices
Of our day
To communicate the ardent delirium
I feel and you
Avoid
And define
As friend
When did it all abruptly change?
What catalyst is to blame?
How come technology did not amend emotions?
Why are you my disease?
Where is my soul relocated?
And if I continue to ask
My remorse grows
With every return you invite
Me to resist but I acquiesce
Not to lose you as acquaintance
But in these decades
Nothing changes except
The height of the years
The artifacts powered by
The modulation of electrons
Particles
Make love a bigger madness
Than the comfort promised
By the Egyptians
And all others who defined
Civilization as the birth of
Hero and despot worship
Given hate is the power
Love creates when
All other monsters
Failed to ignite the songs
Of worship and dependence
No odes are designed for
Fallen; the lie of martyrdom.
My plight for pity through
Adoration…
I want to hold
And
Enter
(So I can have
The
Strength
To
Leave)
You.
All we did
During these times of thought
Analysis
Introspection
Was discuss
The mud on my new boots.
There is a drought
Of
Decorum
Affecting all humanity
But
Power
Still rules.
While waiting
For the death of paper
And
Hoping
Writing does not become obsolete
My pondering
Centers on the zipper
Being
The agent of change
Coats becoming jackets;
Cordless, wireless, digital,
Interconnections
Followed
Yet we, us, them
Make obsession
Human
endless
No comments:
Post a Comment