Zepol

Early Morning Drive

Entering a highway of swirling lights and
gleaming liquid metal under full moonlight
makes us howl internally, from the want to turn
around.  Waves upon waves of mechanically
inefficient machines come and go from one
anonymous place to another, carrying
anonymous passengers as we descend upon
our destinations.       

Hash marks move around us and neat solid
lines guide the far ends of this road giving us a
sense of placement.  Geometric signs with
large numbers and directions regulate but are
ignored because we have a sense of urgency
to follow the leader, as those before us have.    

We live in a world of familiar exits that have no
meaning to the average commuter.  We are
passengers, focused upon one destination, not
stopping to look, to see what we have missed.
 

We are superfluous creatures that lead
superficial lives smoking Lucky Strikes or
Marlboro Lights drinking our lattes and
heading in the same direction with the same
piousness of our ancestors, but having no soul.
Copyright 2007 Red Pulp Underground

I Am

There is no birthday letter to read

No cards to receive
No candles to blow out
No cake to eat
No icing, no nothing

There is no date to remember

Yet, I am here

A man without identity
With a blank stare

Contemplating the past

Knowing
That
I
Exist

This mess, my life

Without as much as a print
Hoping to leave behind, one lasting memory
To prove that I was
Here

No. Here!

Hoping my sons will speak of me
With words of kindness
To their sons and daughters
That will bring joy to their hearts
As they did mine

Dreams Forever

‘Hold fast to dreams” one
man said
In fear of loosing it and feeling
barren
He moved our hearts

“I have a dream”, said another
Eloquently and courageously
He moved a nation  

Both, fine and courageous
men  

I say chase your dream and
catch it
Mold it until you feel fulfilled

I say become the dream and
Remain incessantly in motion
And others will follow

Forever
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