A call

Rage against the dying of the light

Some say put up the fight of your life

Not for you but for them don't look into the night 

To stay is to follow 

To follow is right 

To follow in masses

Safe from the slashes and gashes and gore

Just go on 

living and 

living and 

living some

 

To fight is to fear

To fear is to neglect 

To neglect is To forget 

We fear; say nothing 

You neglect; hear nothing 

i forget; see nothing 

 

say

hear 

see 

Is to realize the wall 

Long, it’s reach is without equal

Sculpting a world where you can only reach out with a white soul

For fragments of normalcy that will be revealed never again

Strong, pulled to the heavens.

a canvas to its frame 

Up, into the mystery of a now cradled sky. 

You thought the world was strong 

 

 

Some look, some need to 

If it’s close you hold the burden 

Kin is obligation  

Mother father brother sister 

Stare

Stare with honey glazed eyes

Stare at Crystalized memories deep within 

Stare getting lost in meaning 

It’s always there

Here they play for keeps 

 

Barren words mumbled in hush tones 

never break the surface  

Speeches announced with such vigor and wisdom Only to be repeated again 

All Provide nothing

when the tumbling stones of realization grind away your shell of control  

In the kingdom of disbelief 

The true God shows her hundred faces 

Time, the only force more irrational 

 

In time you will become just as old

 

Only Next to the wall can you sit 

Next to the wall we all have a seat.

 

 

This poem is about: 
My family

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