Bethlehem 2007 AD
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11-26-07
From mattress to work
From work to mattress
Inside a trough filled with
beautiful despondent men
Tallies of the overlord’s
Large wooden throne
Splinter filled legends
Thorns warp their souls
Constraining their “kind”
For a few deranged minds
Who shout with wires and gunpowder
A last lash from the whip of coveted power
payment for escape to an imagined realm
But
Where for of do these souls go
merciless in their fight
All for control
Of the pebbles in the ground
The cave that was never sound
Nor the herds that squander
The baren hillsides
Oh and how his eyes
sear
deep
Into my soul
He said with a howl
"Old Edward Much is a pleasant dream
If only I could have the decadence of a nice
Long scream
For it would be heaven
In comparison to this hell"
Iron shovel
Mute Bell
From mattress to work
From work to mattress
Inside a trough filled with
beautiful despondent men
Tallies of the overlord’s
Large wooden throne
Splinter filled legends
Thorns warp their souls
Constraining their “kind”
For a few deranged minds
Who shout with wires and gunpowder
A last lash from the whip of coveted power
payment for escape to an imagined realm
But
Where for of do these souls go
merciless in their fight
All for control
Of the pebbles in the ground
The cave that was never sound
Nor the herds that squander
The baren hillsides
Oh and how his eyes
sear
deep
Into my soul
He said with a howl
"Old Edward Much is a pleasant dream
If only I could have the decadence of a nice
Long scream
For it would be heaven
In comparison to this hell"
Iron shovel
Mute Bell
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to eachother." Mother Theresa
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I to will have to re-read it.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
The baren hillsides
If they are barren, the herds have already done their work and moved on.
Even if the reader does not know where the merciless fight goes, you had already laid down the definitions of squander.
redundant, i think.
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If you read the definition of squander:
–verb (used with object)
1. to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often fol. by away).
2. to scatter.
Along with the imagery of the barren hillsides I was attempting to show the futility of the Israeli/Palestenian/Christian struggle for power over Bethlehem. The squandering/wasting of what little resources are left!
Thanks for your critique!