cry – Poétique

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You cry because
You miss him
But do you
Cry because
You miss me?
Does it make
Any difference that
I’m alive
And he is gone?
Would you,
Cry because
You miss me
But not cry because
You miss him
If I was gone?
No longer human
Just an ether
We miss what we
Can’t have and
Forget about what
Is always there
Because we’re human
We mourn the dead
And forget the living
Like the end of summer
It’s not over till it’s over
Can we love the living
Just as we
Mourn the dead
Mourn me
Be with me
As I want to be
With you
While we’re still
Here

Hue and Cry

I wail out to the pain
Of what we could’ve been
Some other mesmerizing forecast
Than the doubt we ended up as
Goodbyes are hindered
By the inability of our hellos
And echos of nothing are
Screaming in the absence
Of a love that dreamed of
Being born before the end of
Every future tomorrow that
Hangs waning in the distant sky
Like an unattainable star

Tutsi

He died crying
How unusually sad
A war on his tribe
Nothing left of his mother
All that cared for him
Sister and brother vanished
Beneath the blade
What a beautiful face
With what grace do
We come into this world
Only to leave at the
Disgrace of the hands
Of evil when the arms
Of love were just cradling
Us now gone to the grave
Open air nothing spared
Innocence slain
For no benefit
For no joy
No further happiness
To grow from the smile
That was taken from
His face alone when
He died crying

Live Live Live!

Whatever’s left
Beyond belief your
Wildest dreams
Keepsakes bereft
You jolt awake from
Bogged down sleep
For fear and fright
Of what is left
That your worst nights
Are getting closer to
Repeat what you detest

Live live live
We cry and oh!
Live live live
Remind us oh!
Of the greatest joys
We’ve yet to sow
Choose the new pain!
Give the old one time to heal
Choose the new pain!
Let the old wound
Close the seal
Choose the new pain!
Just to feel again
Something
Anything
Lest the old pain
Take you down again
We shall not diverge

I

I cry for the world tonight
For all the love
That aches to deserve
I cry for the world tonight
And everything
That deserves to be loved

We stand on a tiny moment
That astounds our ability
To understand
It’s intensity
Fragility
And sensitive nature at hand

This is my cry
This is my comforter
My bonfire

If one scrapes to find
A solution for
Every complex mathematic
He or she escapes the meaning
While the true soul sings ecstatic

I cry for the world tonight
And hope that all might know