Eye Hook

Eye-hook            5/2/2017

Another day

Threading the needle

Passing through

And passing over.

Pumping blood

And sucking atmosphere

We turn up

And turn over.

Once you know

You can never go back

Awakened to reality

Cruel, stark, and obvious. 

Who will walk the razor?

And see what they will find

Straight as an arrow

And shinning like the sun.

And who will survive?

That’s old enough to remember

When murder wasn’t normal

And terror unacceptable.

Our vision dimmed

By dark times

In a dark land

Strange, alien

Ghoulish and dumb.

We grudgingly move

Weighed down by the layers

Added on every day

In burdensome webs.

Hindered at every turn

And penalized for every step

The good killed off

A little more

Every day. 

Stumbling along

On a way to nowhere

Bearing the weight

As long as we can

Worked until we die

And marched off a cliff.

I fight against the covers

And wrestle against sleep

Even though I know

That much of it is pointless. 

Too little

And too late

But we arise anyway

And do what we must.

Even if we lose

Those we love have a chance

As long as there is one

Carrying us

In their heart. 

All from one

We remain together

Hidden inside

A double helix

And frozen in time.

Unlocked and unchained

We are all linked together

The first and the last

Biding our time

And waiting for God.