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Sunday, October 1, 2017

Casualty

The battle fought internally
Of body and of mind
Such fires rage infernally
Well fueled they’re unconfined
We wear their scars externally
Become how we’re defined
While clawing forth eternally
To just remain behind
A casualty of the war
Being fought in each of us
Our demons hunger for more
An enemy ravenous
The balance is precarious
The plummet hard and deep
The dangers not vicarious
Abysmal walls are steep
Too fearful seem nefarious
Under the drug they sweep
The naturally gregarious
To sow then we must reap
A casualty of the war
Being fought under the skin
Incessant hunger for more
Must consume us from within
The body becomes a jail
With the sickness in its cells
Existence prison detail
Where burgeoning toxin swells
Excruciating travail
Clarity of death’s harsh knells
Faced with catastrophic fail
What remains is our farewells
A casualty of the war
Waged internal to our chagrin
While we only dream of more
In the end no one will win

In memory of Ramin Shirazi.

© 2017

The Voice

The Voice has been silenced
Again art knows lament
The end has come too quickly
Too soon his life was spent
No more to face the music
The song turns into cry
Authorities shrugged ‘suicide’
Confused we just ask Why?
While I lament your death
In your life I can rejoice
On words of such sweet breath
You shared with us the Voice
The world needs its artists
Few amazing still remain
How to reconcile such loss
How to contend with pain
When you can’t fill the empty
With too much on the plate
The brain as adversary
Where poisons incubate
While I lament your death
In your life I do rejoice
On words of such sweet breath
You shared with us the Voice
We’re shown that satisfaction
Exists but in success
The impactful distraction
Lives enjoyed in excess
Contentment as abstraction
To know the answer yes
Lives reduced to transaction
Inflate and then depress
While I lament your death
In your life I shall rejoice
On words of such sweet breath
You shared with us the Voice
While we lament your passing
We loved your garden sound
Capacity surpassing
Mighty glad you were around

For Chris Cornell

© 2017