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 to attend
Everything brought to its instant [...]

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 as complicated as the workings [...]

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 bowl of soup and 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 frogs in the grass
Flowers and bees they [...]

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 now all the hands going up
The percentage [...]