The French Camp

The French Camp              7/27/2017

Either by lies

Or maybe by omission

The words are withheld

And the motive hidden. 

The dreams of the dead

Swept under the rug

Overshadowed by a veneer

False, and fake. 

The lie just gets bigger

Every time it is told

Just as false now

As it was then. 

Decades fly by

And the truth

Was there all along

For anyone to see

All around

And everywhere. 

In smoke filled rooms

The decisions were made

About whom to blame

And who to excuse. 

And so the truth was hidden

And we didn’t know

Left with only

What we

Were told.    

Manipulated by propaganda

In art, culture, and tv

To accept decline

Surrender and decay.

Living on poison

One drop at a time

Minute by minute

And day by day. 

Accelerated over time

Because truth is hard to suppress

The replacement of millions

In their own land. 

Medicated, labeled

Penalized, and blamed

The good and the original

Marginalized by degree. 

They lied about the murders

And they lie about them still

Even now that we know

By statistics

And reality.   

Flooded, defrauded

And disenfranchised by the hour

The good citizens of utopia

Murdered in the street. 

The end is here

But the liars remain

Protected by a narrative

Too big to fail.    

Built up

Over time

The tremendous falsehood

Of blame

Enough to make you sick

With more of the same. 

I will remember your name

And I will remember your face

Hunted down for a reason

Because of who you were

And what you were.   

Magdalene

Magdalene           7/25/2017

More than they will ever know

And more than they will ever face

I walked the walk

And I ran the race.  

Cut from behind

From the least threatening corner

Deep, deadly 

Vicious, and cruel.   

The first loss 

Of many losses 

Suffered by one

And suffered by many.  

Betrayed out of nowhere 

The doubled minded beast

Growing head after head 

Preying upon every doubt

And disappointment.

Deceptive and relentless 

We fall far below 

Endlessly suffering 

From blow after blow. 

Death comes

Silent as a shadow

A black mold

Growing on the brain. 

Skewing thoughts

From desperation

And despair

Closing in

And closing off.

And only God knows

How many have tried

Over and over

Before they gave up

Rolled over and died. 

Blood of my blood

The precious link

Between them and us

You and me. 

Bound with

A sacred chain

Unbroken

But hunted

Every day. 

Whisper to me

All your secrets

And I’ll tell you mine

Ancient as we 

Together in time.  

Though the ashes

Be buried

The embers

Have never gone out

Waiting for centuries

For a whisper or a shout. 

Reconstituted

From nothing

From dust comes victory

The invisible miracle

Of immortality. 

Encircled

And outnumbered

Those who remain

Ridiculed and punished

Every day

In every way. 

But love conquers all

And the spark

Only grows stronger

With knowledge

And time. 

I hold my son

As my father held me

Sacred as a mother

Covering us all

From hatred

And cruelty. 

Cover me

And I cover you

All of us one

Inside and out

The first

And the last. 

We were born

Just for this

To preserve

And protect

The best we can

Right here

And right now. 

Every watchful

And ever awake

Eyes wide open

In front

And behind. 

The saints

Camp about us

Unwavering

And true

Seeing us out

And seeing us through. 

News Talk

News Talk             7/13/2017

Many will eat

And still be hungry

Force fed for life

On nothing at all. 

Nothing but baubles

Dangled in our eyes

Shiny distractions

From what is real

And what is true.    

We can listen

Or we can turn away

Because the truth is all around

Everywhere you look

And everything you see. 

If you can see it

Then you can decide

Who are the real liars

And who are the blind.  

Here they come now

And chatter

Endlessly speculating

On nothing at all. 

Outside is everything

And memory is the key

As with each passing day

It either gets better

Or it gets worse.

The struggle against forgetting

Is a war against time

Slipping away

Every minute

And every day. 

The world spasms

And doubles over

Long ago

Corrupted

And compromised. 

Accustomed to power

And unlimited money

Skimming off the cream

And feeding at the trough. 

Fat off the back

Of the powerless

And the forgotten

The sacrificial lambs

Detested

And abused. 

They have lost

And their time grows short

A long time coming

Slow

And certain. 

Guard your heart

And lock it away

Everything in prayer

Morning, noon

And night.    

Fast and Faster

Fast and Faster   7/6/2017

They might wonder

What is wrong

And they might think

That we

Are insane. 

But all men die

While only a few

Ever live

Truly free

To be who they are. 

Surfing the hurricane

And barely touching the water

In control of uncontrollable chaos

At a thousand miles an hour. 

All of this

Can disappear

And even the greatest glory

Lost in an instant
Of ravishing splendor. 

Now is the time

To be here

And this is the moment

Of the greatest gold. 

A shining moment

To be cherished

At the top of a world

Long turned

Upside down. 

Choosing truth

And embracing reality

Unleashed

And unbridled.

The lies are falling

And it is now

That we must choose

Shedding all that is fake

And all that is phony. 

It has never been more clear

And the odds

Have never been greater

The whole world

And all its institutions

Diseased from within. 

Long used like a hammer

To break us down

And destroy lives

Over used

And over extended. 

Ready to collapse

At any moment

Even the all powerful

And self-absorbed.

Teetering on their perches

Arrogant and smug

Judging us all

And pumping out the drugs.

But no longer

Do we

Even touch the ground

Faster and faster

On top of the trains.

Closer to God

Than man

The bold actions

Of the free

And the brave. 

Bombs Bursting in Air

'The Rockets' Red Glare            7/4/2017

Today I will wear a white hat

And look to the sky

For a few minutes of splendor

More determined than ever

To defend and protect.

Even now we are prisoners

And strangers

Aliens in the land of our fathers

Betrayed

Over and over again. 

Sold out for nothing

And penalized at every turn

Hated for our truth

And butchered

For our beauty.

Bombs will burst in the air

And we will see

All its glory

For those who remember

The forgotten

And the dead.

The black plague rages

And disease spreads

In the dark

All of it on purpose

And all of it planned. 

Now more than ever

See it all unfold

The truth writ large

Everywhere you look.

Sooner than you think

Everything will be exposed

As ever fair weathered friend

Hides in the grass. 

Evil will spend itself

In a last

And desperate gasp

So close

And yet so far. 

Frustrated

At the very last moment

Just before

They sealed our doom.

The good awakened

And no longer blind

Aware of the ugly truth

That can never

Be forgotten. 

They shall all

Expose themselves

In a violent foolish spasm

Spent upon the innocent

And the unaware. 

Let it all fall down

And consume them

Burning away

All their pride

And childish hatred.

Look up

And see it

For we have already won

Every promise kept

The long way around.