Glorious Dust

Mind your manners, Mouse

I'm not being nice
So you accuse me

But what have I done?
Served you faithfully and well
Borne your abuse with patience
Until now

And you?

You toy with my life
As a cat plays with a mouse
Threaten and bully
Cajole and toss me a bone
And then tell me
I should be grateful

While you grow fat
On sorrow, fear and weariness

I am nothing
A means to an end
When you can use me
No longer, I shall be discarded
Like so much litter

But I forgot
I'm the one who is not nice

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Dead men talking

The dead are gone
Banished from our sight
The silent dust engulfs them
Claims them for its own
Together with the worm and the crow

The eater and the eaten
The beater and the beaten
Or are they all the same in the end?

We all pass the gate one by one
Never to return

But if one were to glance backwards
Pausing at the threshold of eternity
He would find that the road behind is littered with himself

Those who follow can see
If they take the trouble to look
That signposts have been left for them
By those who went before

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Change

A silver birch
Whispers
To a silky-voiced fir
Their voices scarcely heard
Amid the thunder of bombs
In their grey rubble
One finds
Flecks of color
Reflected stars
In shattered glass
Far away
The songs of fearless larks
Soaring in an infinite sky
The broken hearted one
Who laughs
Whose starving stagger
Is full of rejoicing
Butterfly wings
Which stir the winds of the world.

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Sortie

In the darkness and silence
You believe you are alone
One solitary tear
Sliding gently down
Its well worn course
Does not pass unnoticed

In the darkness and silence
You are not alone
You have only to reach out
And Love will find you
She waits eagerly for you to appear

In the darkness and silence
The door to your fortress is shut
The key which only you can use
Stands ready

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Perfect harmony

A child steps and turns
In time
Her fingers trace
A melody in the air
Rhythm throbs from the Earth
Beneath her dancing feet
Her smile is bright sunshine
I join hands with her
In innocent joy and perfect love
We dance together
With angels and archangels
And all the company of Heaven and Earth.