Pieced Peace from the collection Litter Paper

Pierced Peace

After the blood

I can sense the longing

The red cloth is flying

I can see the fear

Those eyes wide

I can feel those thoughts

I think the same for both sides

I realise the derangement of the mind

The lost heart

The belonging of time

Lost souls in the dead of night

No blood to shed

All fine in a peaceful death

In the past

A new present has shone upon the people

The present now has become there fear

Lost forever in the lines and boundaries

By religion

Cast and colour

Oh how people fight

All knowing that after the blood

There is an uncertain future

A broken past

And a feared present

Oh how people fight with the word God in there mind

In the form of manny names

How they fight

Yet after the blood there is guilt

Grief, a sense of no belonging

After the blood

No humanity to spare in the hearts of us

And a dead mind

Finally crying for a turn of the clock

After the blood

There is no more light

And in this life only that moment of death will we realize

did I need the blood....

Could I not have spared those lives