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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Master of Death?
July 31, 1992
a spring morning like every one before it
rich in decay and apple blossoms
ripe with death outside my door
and the dream was ended so long ago
raised rifle, rim fire machinations, bad tidings
and I watched from the apple trees, the change come
spring day redefined, elimination of comparison
generation day, singularity up among the apple blossoms
I slept the night away in my friend the apple tree
afraid if I came down the dead would take me with them
but I watched and they didn ��t move
mother and sister beside the man in iron gray
and I didn ��t understand death back then
dreamed if I could put them back in order
all would self repair
to hear them laughing as I had before
so thinks the child, so like child I endeavored
raising from the dead
tried to sew their bodies back together
and in the mind of the child, this should have made well
I thought I did my job badly
if I got the stitches close enough they might resume
and if I pieced them back together they might resume
and if I found enough of them, they might
so I stitched carefully for always, until the flesh grew too rotten to hold
finally assured I wasn ��t talented enough, missing some stitch
stared into the sky and screamed silence
and the sky stared back into me
and as a child I learned
death is invincible
you can put them back together, but they don ��t begin again
I wonder, humankind ��s fixation on slaughtering itself
and I put pennies on their eyes
to ease their immortal souls at the ferryman
but I couldn ��t make their beds in the stony ground
nor master oxen to the plough
too small to trick either oxen or earth to direction
and I think it would have been me I buried if I could
in the hole I wanted for them
and I still remember coming down from my place
struggling from the apple tree
until that moment I was god
and god, he was me
but I could not return them
and I knew godhead was empty
I will never forget how their faces melted in the sun
and the child I am still breaks down and cries
in this world there are no answers, and godhead failed
question what this world has done with me
I neither understood truth nor death
��til I found it had won a battle I hadn ��t begun
I stared strait into the sky and screamed silence
and the sky stared back through me
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