Poems

In the heart of the house it was said of sunlight That in all instances it recognised suffering As something said but never witnessed The imagined last thought the lethal injection The unreality in the next moment you will cease to be Without the heart of the house and sunlight Without strength it’s too much [...]

Everything points to it the solution It’s the last bridge standing and we have to cross it Behind and in front a nation is on the move Not that it’s a simple matter moving from one place to another The movement of a nation en masse is a class act There are in it variations [...]

Ask yourself in the middle of a bomb raid A man walks along with a monkey on his shoulder What do you do in the circumstance Do you trust him enough to follow him and his monkey Do you swear by him to guide you safely through the bombing In this man’s company given a [...]

When I think of human tragedy on a scale So overwhelming that it describes Life insignificant to the event When human cries go up and Life sees itself dead and decaying in the sun Its then that a charity comes to me I can’t help thinking of the garden that survives Birds are there and [...]

Never should we ask to be remembered by this man The man who has taken our light So high up into the mountains Why should we think of him on our behalf That Lamentations touch him Rather he was a rescue worker to bring From a hopeless situation a child out alive I see them [...]