What force, what power, who’s god, in the midnight hour, drove the hand that drove the knife deep into my Cousin’s flesh — took his life. What force, what power, what God do we follow, as we wallow in subjugation under the hand of the man with a church in one and the fear of [...]
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Mama Slept The Day Through
Papa, why don’t you hug mummy any more.
Did you know that she cries so much, that her eyes get sore.
And when she looks at me some days, her eyes are black,
and I ask how come, and she says she walked into the door.
Posted by Djubba on 9 April, 2008
http://daopoetry.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/mama-slept-the-day-through/
Have You Ever
Have you ever seen someone being bottled? Have you ever seen the fierceness of one victim attacking another, no logic in their eyes, no vision in their lives? Have you ever heard the thudding sound upon skin and bone and watched glass shatter across another’s head? Have you been real close and seen the skin [...]
Posted by Djubba on 1 April, 2008
http://daopoetry.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/have-you-ever/
