Remnants

 

 

Are you done for the day

     Slumbering away –

A stay of execution from your mind

As time

Moves swiftly between

Two opposing poles

Upon an ever increasing,

Audible clock?

     Voluminous seconds count

And,

     Is there something

You haven’t done –

Haven’t achieved as

Slipping silently by

Are the cornerstones of

                Your being?

 

     Two Worlds

Take a tickle to your cause –

Your lost cause or

New found hope,

     And the dreams bring

Further reminders

Of puzzles within your life

Where none make any sense

But engage the fear within

Your soul and the road

To waking on the hour

Of platitudes and false smiles

Fills only air within

Your cavities of tears and screams,

     (and is this a mark

That came from nowhere to

Adorn my skin with scabs of blood

And dirt)? The din of questions

Flooding in reminds us all

That although presented human,

     We’re fighting monsters -

Nightly; daily in our dreams.

 

     Back at six

With lollipops and faded grins –

The fume’s of gin reveals

Each a casualty before our

Eyes and did we think we

In turn would oil the systems -

That present only excuses

For erection of barbed wire

Fences to surround your thoughts

Of freedoms and better ways

Of living?

     Did we know?

     Did we know?

 

     Sleep little child,

Seek your mothers worship

And your fathers adoration,

Sleep well little child

And let the

Grown-ups save all

From all tomorrow’s harm,

Sleep little child

As pendulums swing only

     Tic and Toc

     Tic and Toc

     Tic and Toc

And let not the corrupted

Ways of Jealous World’s

Snatch you from the light

To take you to despairing

Depths of darkened rooms

And walls of doom

And the lingering memories

Beset,

     By floods of tears in doubt.

 

 

Michael J Waite 1^st November 2011. 

 

Child Abuse Must Stop, Full Stop!