Sunday 15 November 2015

Underclasses

My heart melting away 
at the slightest touch of your kind discretion;
the reluctance of an unsure mind,
cold with construision. 
First introductions, fond associations, Secular engagements, 
all light and sound and smoke - Human relationships!

My child's carefree laughter,
the tender touch of his little hands, 
a gentle flicker in the cold silence of my dead soul;
dead children, broken homes, 
military tanks, torn nations. 
Residuums, underclasses and redundant populations!
Modern times.

Rallies, Slogans, Rhetoric, Stone-pelting, 
tear-gas-shells, Tears.
Broken promises, 
Hopes betrayed, 
Lost lives and lives lived like lost.
Textures of loss.

The discursive consciousness 
of an existence torn-apart and spread out naked 
over fences of barbed-wire. 
An existence torn between Damnation and Despair.
Post-Human Societies. 

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