Tuesday, February 21, 2012

cuttle bone

Clipped by you
flightless
I stayed in my cage
alone
chirping and chortling
preening
and admiring my reflection
sideways
and always turning
unused
to the freedom of the open
door. 


they say no one

Quiet came at last
a calm no one wanted
field strewn with the
wreckage of this last
moment.
Why all of this
screaming came and
went no one seems to
know and no one seems
to care.
The battle cry
of artillery pounding
against the walls
babies crying seemingly
without sound.
Now They won't cry
any more, won't hug
any more won't kiss
any more.
No one wanted this
they say, no one deserved
this they say, no one
should have died they say
no one.
They say no one.