National Poetry Month
Alive
By Shinken del Fénix
I wander through this world of whirling wind
A world where greed is the resounding din
I am a man of myth; no one hears
My story for they’re deaf and full of fear
Amor, it is a lonely way I walk
Where the stars sing songs and shadows stalk
The light as an assassin does its prey
They say I should pray but to whom do they
Pray? Are their gods not the idols of T.V.
That let you see how blind a man can be?
See how they run from their mortality!
Yet they all die inside like time rotting
They have gaping-grave wounds that aren’t clotting
They with dead eyes face the sky unseeing
Six feet below the undertow, sinking
Drinking the absinthe of oblivion
I’m alive amongst these dead millions
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