THE REAPER IS WILD AND SMILES

We’re climbing up

till the bitter end

We will speak out

Till you’re translucent

We will preach peace

Until we’re heaven sent

We will beat it hard

Till reality becomes unbend

I hold on the brass hinges

And smile

My skin is so sore

I have to prove I’m am human

Is here’s nothing we can do

to make the dry tongue moist again?

Shrugged shoulders 

and a dreary refrain

Does it take just one kiss

to undo us from torture?

Just one hug

leads to rapture

Tattered thoughts

on television

Dead eyes

And interdiction

Bitter fruits

And apathy

A lost part

of the rusted machinery

The swindled ant

Of the colony

I sit here

looking at the wounded sky

There’s enough space on either side

I sit alone

drinking my swipe