We Only Want The World To Live

It’s true

WE ONLY WANT THE WORLD TO LIVE

But its pirouette proves endless.

And                                      once again

the 

floor                         finds me

fallible.

It is strange that we should so carefully cherish the fallacy       of the World 

stopping for us.

Perhaps romantic pity            is what led us towards our inevitable,

Each warning we ignored until we found ourselves living on the outskirts of life,

The love we were promised by poets who knew nothing and continue to know 

nothing burnt in the bush fires and cast out to sea,

Her hands muddied, she scowered the shores of the Old World in search of poetry.

The lines between

WILD NATURE and DOMESTICATED

Have crumbled.

She threw that debris from mountain tops,

As if finding a way to start again.

Vagrant men scrape what’s left of what was,

No longer worthy. 

Long forgotten          childhood, happiness, form, and color.

WOMEN’s tears are but water; 

The tears of men are blood.

Is what she wrote she wrote to

me.

all the hours that laugh, the hours that mourn,

                                                                                                 Sank deeper through the

sea.

A dream lies dead there.

That much we know.

It has no politics, leads no new movements, is the organ of no generation.

We lost the war.

Heedless of the crying children,

We walk beneath the beating of a wing,

What is this sorrow you are breathing?

Poets write elegies                            to The grass and the sky.

                             

But on the Toothed wind of the seas,

are where your words lie.

I have whispered thee in the solitudes      And from the cliff I leap.

I know that you’re down here

somewhere, pirouetting in the deep. ∎

 

Words by R.T. Sweeney.