Day 162 - Better Night Than Most But Still Cold

Today I was colder than yesterday

For apparently everyone had only "no" to say

"No I cannot spare any change, you scum"

The harsher yet unsurprising "bum"

Slapped me in the face from between their teeth

For after all I only live far beneath

In the tunnels of train-stops like a ghost

As unseen as the boring white post

And even more so bundled as I am tonight

Begging for the warmth, but only seeing the light

That cannot help blot out my demons

That puncture me in the forms of needles and pins

I can no longer read the sign that says "welcome"

I lost all those hopeful thoughts, and then some

The stairs tonight in the old abandoned shed

Leave me one more day, more alive than dead

But in the biting, raging, winds and cold

I see too much innocence, constantly sold

A warm bed with a stranger weighing a ton

Is better than the concrete with ice to stun

Lice to bite and infect your aching head gone

Forgetting what was once said about moving on

To a better place and your own warm house

Which you would share with neither rat nor mouse

That is just more of the cruelly deceitful hope

Shit and nonsense people make up to cope

With their blatant disregard for this bum's heart

The crazy dreams and terrors are ripping me apart

Into the crazy garbage can man you all fear

Who started talking to himself, since no one else could hear

The cries at night that flooded his cardboard sanctuary

The dead lie in cleaner spaces in the mortuary

Or the woman who huddles in the filth of pigeons

While all human contact she woefully shuns

Because birds stick together the way man does not

Never leaving their own kind to slowly rot

Away brains and hope, to be coated in strife

After all that is no way to live a life

Day 160 - Love Knows No Restrictions

You and I, they call us a declaration

But we just laugh and live our lives

It is not a message to the nation

Of some decision on who should be wives

It's love plain and simple, no foolhardy games

The only people we need, already know our names

Back in the times of the rainbow parades

It seemed more natural the way they would stare

Then it seemed they thought it a game of charades

But that was long ago, and far away there

This is now the only way we know how to we live

Together, not separate with no more speeches to give

It is no longer some journey we are taking

Unsure of where we will find ourselves in the end

It is the hope of the future that has us shaking

With endless sweet nothings still to send

In unmarked envelopes we leave here and there

So that all love is spread out, everywhere

Day 102 - Silenced

I don't speak, you don't see

But then again it's not only me

You have me locked in the dark

Too frightened to make my mark

Why not listen to what I say?

Why always side with 'they'?

They who exiled Galilaeo

Censored many a book and show

They who shackled men to be slaves

Like those living in caves

No one can prove the majority is right

Now when we have entered such a night

So instead of scoffing when you eye my shirt

Stop a moment and think of all the hurt

That such attitudes have caused before

And pull away from the hateful core

Day 29 - Justice Lies

Justice Lies

Look, there lays Justice so dormant and still

Not at all worried about anyone's will

Even though now it has been said she is missed

I am still just a number on an endless list

That she has ignored for a score or two it seems

Any actual help seems now to only exist in dreams

If you pull hard enough on a set of strong scales

You will find so many tellers spinning tales

After all how often does Honesty stand

To the right of sweet Justice hand in hand?

One would think this a normal occurrence

But it only seems to add in more abhorrence

In the fact that they do nothing for the true goal

They just increasingly digging deeper the hole

Where all the ones who need help the very most

End up, or so Malice and Anger boast

They seem to rule with a much firmer grasping fist

Like the cancerous ulcer or the yellowing cyst

If only the scales that hold Justice would wake

There would be such great steps we could take

But still the dormant and uncaring stances are rampant

Nothing more powerful of Hopes' virtues are sent

So the answer is simple and unjust existence

Still no help for those taking path of resistance

Day 11 - Just Tomorrow

Just Tomorrow

Weighty moments have tipped the scales Justice has been blinded once more I fear the time when She fails Leaving the forgotten without a score Alas, the fiend Opinion leaps from left to right Keeping your mind spun in confusion Pretending to support Justice's sight While knowing it is truly abetting delusion Time has passed all concerns with Justice's plight Clock a tick-tocking with no end in sight But now it moves to the center untrue There is now much too much balance in view Bells toll out as sirens and angels battle High in the skies bringing no help to us We are here, down below we struggle and rattle Hoping that again on Earth they will focus Nature laughs cruelly and pulls another stone Numbers of people and lives are once again unknown How can we hope to stop this unrest? When all the old leaders have now confessed They know no more than we the people Not even guided by scripture or steeple

Who could ever imagine this day would come When all they could do was admit their defeat After all the harm they have caused for some Now they say their missions are incomplete? They still have more hurt waiting to file through For damage and hatred they shall go the distance But what of the tragic ones, me and you? Struggling to keep up the positive resistance Is there not some message we can pull from the air To express the need for us all to truly care For every single one and other The whole of humanity like sister and brother Justice someday soon must make a choice Blind faith in the system is now failing For if her blindness prevents her voice Than the discouraged will never stop their flailing The poor and the endlessly hungry They are no worse off than those we reject All need the chance to be free Each human being deserves that respect So take up what it is that you hold with pride Stand up for what is right we wield too much now to hide