freedom |ˈfrēdəm |
noun
the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint
refuge |ˈrefˌyo͞oj, -ˌyo͞oZH |
noun
a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~Maya Angelou
to the women
who choose the abandoned.
who, with every hug, erase the abandonment; Continue reading
i know
you’re on the brink
on the edge,
close to losing it,
drowning in your tears. Continue reading
pen in hand
(fingers over keyboard),
one stroke at a time,
scratch out
(delete),
try a different letter configuration.
read aloud
or never read.
just keep adding one
letter after another
after a space
after a coma
after a
full stop. Continue reading
i think
we fail harder,
when we fail to ask for help.
when we fail to answer a call for help.
when we pretend to help only to make ourselves look better.
we just fail and can never learn.
something old…
They eat their own kind
Feast on the flesh of their kind
Drink up the blood quenching their thirst
With their teeth tear limbs apart
Ravage the brains; pick the eyes
Suck the marrow from the bones of
Their own kind.
These fingers once tenderly held a loved one
Those legs took a soul on a journey
That heart loved and loved
This blood that pulsed through the veins
They feast on their youngin’, their women
Plunder temples between infantile legs
Rip the cradle of mankind
Raid and pillage the sacred womb of humanity
They smack their lips with deranged joy
As the lifeblood oozes down their chins
Drips on the banquet table where
They feast on their own kind
Those eyes looked back at yesterdays and forward to tomorrows
These breasts from which life suckled futures
This tongue sent odes and laments and chants and ululations to hungry souls
They feed on their own kind
Walk the street the stench of blood up their nostrils
They stalk chicks as a fox near the farmhouse
Prey on the young and old and seemingly weak
Seeking only to fill their bloody hunger
Out in the street they took her soul
Under the kitchen table he turned baby into woman
Fighting for survival they consumed the dead
In a drunken delusion they sucked her dry
Ravage femininity pillaged womanhood
Licked their fingers
As they devoured their own kind
What abomination
A survival of the fittest?
A meal when times are toughest?
Or just pure cannibalistic, carnivorous, intentions?
Why do they eat their own?
this poem is linked to OpenLinkNight on dverse.com
