Omitted
17 years later
a walk on a ledge
reaching into the dirt
in the beginning
he touched the sky
and slid
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a man, lays on a cot .. covered in sheets
surrounded by beings ... mourning
deep down
inside, submerged beneath his muscle
echoing down the hallways
he pleas
for his life, to these beings
though the beings cannot hear him
he screams, into the translucent sky,
scratching at the walls
as his body lay motionless
"Save Me .. Please"
again and again
he asks
but the shortness of his breath
had long since pasted
and his mother cries
on the floor
weeping, completely disposed
and this was his
calamity
250 miles away
a young kid plays, in the front lawn
with his soldiers, laughing and battling
in total fascination
while in an apartment,
just a building away
a man's riffle falls
from the wall
and fires a single shot
that passed through a window,
and swept across the street
to exit out the back
of his head, completely dissenting.
Across an ocean .. to where a city slept through darkness
thousands of stone buildings, suddenly crumbled
collapsing upon the families, of people who were made of marble
the earthquake shook, and rattled
leaving tens of thousands dead.
i lay here
staring at the black slots
that create the distance
between the cars
that beat and dump
to the marbles of our race
time is but a button
again and again
i pass them
drifting
running my fingers through them
... brushing them, touching them, wondering
they're so irreversible aren't they
the tangents that they lay, with their eggs
cling to the memory, and mustn't be passed
to reach out and to touch something as smooth as a stone
is to feel as cold, as it was suppose to.
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