Violets
Violets are blue, or purple, or so.
Roses are red, or pink, or yellow.
Blades and bullets tossed from us to them.
Nothing compares in reality to film.
It rains thick and dark contagious red
From his arm, his chest, his hip, or leg.
The beat, the bump, the throb, the thump
What I was once, for sure be gone
Was I a fool to take this road alone?
What is a hero?
Am I a hero if no one sees my noble actions?
What if I fell on poisoned grass
trying to save someone I do not know?
Would violets bloom around my bloody soul?
If I hear the screams of innocence and choose to ignore it
Does that make me vicious and unfit?
My heart is asleep on safe sound soil
Her grace keeps me running even without oil.
Am I a man if I sometimes am afraid?
If I want to ship myself to her where I am safe
Am I a man if I sometimes am afraid?
Violets are blue or purple or so.
Around my temple of bravery they grow.
Watered and fed by my own rains of red
From my arm, my chest, but mostly
My head.