I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of all events.


Change of Mind

If a word could change your mind
Then humanities cries would break your heart
Yet so many words do we speak
But none do we mean
The sanctity of your reason
Has caged your sanity
And the war games of our nurseries
Are played out in city streets
A newspapered dog chews on putrid meat
Fly infested sewers flow beneath cancer eaten feet
And mundane love affairs are inflicted upon the sweet and innocent
They succumb to a pleasurable intent
Goaded by eyeless traditionalists who pursue their own particular bent
While the guiltless repent

He slowly rose from the desk, outside the room. Venus hung, a piercing ball of light in the cold blue-black night. Through the pane of glass, the bushes and overgrown weeds thrashed in the colorless light of night. A rectangle of electrical light glared from the houses opposite.

And then suddenly he saw a flash of light.




Poetry by Firehawk
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Written on 2005-09-28 at 21:16

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wbluerose02
Nice write I may say,your words seem to grab out and touch a heart. I know what you mean on this write.
Keep up the fine writes and I'm looking to read moe from you.VBS
2005-10-04


chasingtheday The PoetBay support member heart!
humanities cries - humanity's cries

if only - we can say if a thousand times and dream, reality is here to stay. sanity, insanity, it is all a matter of perception really. maybe that's the whole point with teaching us when young, the men to fight with toy guns etc so when we grow up we are prepared to fight the good fight! it's all madness disguised with pretty lace. we are a violent race, it is why we are at the top of the food chain. for all the words of peace we speak, we are quick to jump into a uniform.
2005-09-28


John Ashleigh
Brilliant. Not much constructive advice can be given, as I find this to be well built up and structured originally. All I can say is that I really like your writing, and that I am always waiting for your next poem to read.
2005-09-28