DEATH ROW

My tag says 70,861… three more and I’m next
I, born out of rape – my mother, helpless for she was chained
At birth, taken away from her and imprisoned in a battery pen
I wasn’t alone
There were others like me, stolen from their mothers
For weeks I hear her bellowing for me
But I could only cry back longing for her snuggle
I could only imagine the taste of her milk,
Which I was forbidden to drink
I could still remember her smell
And how she talked to me while I was still in her womb
She always told me, ‘Be brave my child just like your siblings who were long gone’
I didn’t know why, but now I understand – for I’ll be born in this hell…

Stellar Dust

Born of the oldest star

A gift from the clearest sky

Molded from the cup of the vast universe

Made from the spark of a single atom

Enclosed in a human soul

With a chi of a tender heart

The Drummer

Be…

Glide into the abyss
Where colors warble in darkness
Swaying bowing to the squall
Chimes echo the shower of magic
Music tumbles into a waterfall
Your body is more than a clump of ash
The heart beats with the rhythm of the earth
This is your last dance