The Sacrifice

 

On wounded knee

The flounder’s pond

Gossamer tree

Great hills beyond

Sat a slouched man

Crossed legs

A well meaning attune

An ear full of pegs

Barked light off the moon

Listen and he stays

Lighten and he strays

Prepared for global fight

Well into the night

Aware of seasons fair

As doubtless as their glare

Why it is in our design

To choose to kill our own kind

Cookie crumbs licked off elbows

Medically enhanced cocaine

Rubber checks bounce off windows

Pubes on a gold plated shower drain

Run the wires and heat the steam

Light our fires and see the dream

Become a hire and join the team

Show desire, class and esteem

Now admired tempted by fiends

A true provider, perfect it seems

You’re through, he hears in his head

In the pond swirls of bloody red

The night screams the words she said

You’ll see me no more lay in your bed

Not a flounder but a perch arises

Staring at the man as he cried

A tear met the water’s surface

Every life in the pond slowly died

 

                        04/2007  Jake Belmont