Here is my latest poem. Enjoy :)


Red, It Ran

Slivering down the skin
Embracing silver light shafts
And shifts
Through
And in-out

Breathing life
Into pores so miniscule
Targets richeting
Hearts a-spring;
Wondering…

Beneath surfaces
If floods run
Red with emotional
Illumination

Or crack
Under the pressure
Of desertion

Hands tied
The rope of unison
Cutting splinters
Into palms
So desperate
So dry

Recoiled
Wild
Against the beasts
Unearthed
Unfailed

We shall rise again
Once more
And blowing to the wind
Remain unadjourned
Until dawn breaks
Through the clouds
Above

An embrace
Under moonlight
A storm of
Unfettering wisdom
Bubbling up inside;
Crucified

Yesterday’s mirrored
In a thousand
Gentle kisses

The innocence lost
How will it all end?
Not even remnants
In memories or wishes
Can save
Barely survive
On a life of solace

Scarce
Infatuated

Trigger pointed to thy brow
Sister, brother, who art thou…
Redeemed under blood-lit sky?

Horizons stretch out in blue
To claim the lives of those
You knew

Too late to pause
Too little is recalled
When you sing a song
Of war

Feelings no more
Rekindled
In the amber glow
Of your warmth

In the tenderness
On the rough carpet
We lay uncouth
Sinking into the depths
Of our skulls

…Migrants in a foreign country.

Little in the eyes of the world
Magnaminous in our destination
We trek to Calvary
Bareback

Unaware
Of the winding road
We sacrifice ourselves
To our own hell

Like cripples lost in deserted lands
The enemy falls to the ground;
In thirst
Hands raw
Unforgiving

… not forgotten but...not yet found.


27/9/07

A.C.J