23rd March 2025

 The rain showed up in force today, 

Ten battalions strong,

Infantry, cavalry, 

A hundred miles long.

We're gonna get slaughtered,

We heard our troops say,

Our feeble storm defenses

Will not help us today.

A shower of rockets 

Came raining down first

As we in our bunkers 

Awaited the worst.

And then a bugle sounded

To signal a retreat

Which left us all confounded

Like zombies in the street.

Perhaps a deal was made

By people at the top

Who shook each other's hands

And made the shelling stop,

Yes, shook each other's hands

And made the shelling stop.

 

13th January 2025

I was on the bike,
On a cat food shopping trip, 
Singing a song,
Trying to get it right,
About the day you died
And if your baby, 
Whom it was addressed to, 
Knew about it,
The day you died,
And how on that day
I cried and cried
When all of a sudden
I began hitting myself on the chest,
Hard,
Repeatedly,
In full public view,
To stop the wound in my heart
From bleeding again.

The next thing I knew,
I was riding that bike,
Aimlessly.
Directionless.
Going around in circles.
Confusion.
In.
The.
Brain.
Clouded.
By.
Muted Pain.

I did not know,
What I was doing,
Was looking for a deserted place
To cry my lungs out
To the skies
At five in the evening,
In this bustling part of the world,
An impossible task.

The next thing I knew,
I was back on track,
On the bike,
On a cat food shopping trip,
Destination marked clearly in the head.

Cats die,
All the time,
But the pain 
Never, ever, dies.