Hot and Humid

Hot and Humid

I want to enjoy

cool breeze

leaves turning

soft blue sky

it is hot humid

ninety today

Polar ice melts

Miami Beach

streets flooded

where will it end

world engulfed

all ocean no land

Noah and Arafat

we learn nothing

centuries pass

lessons ignored

we continue to 

destroy all life

Over and over

again we mistake

our mission to

honor life in

variances all

contained within 

Onyx

Clouds
wet on
nightshirts
line hung

He's He

He’s He

He will 

beat me up

one way or

another

Anew Nuit

Anew Nuit 

I’m alone

first night

two years

gone bye

I’m alone

Only for a

short time

two hours

I sit to pen

in peace

I’m alone

free to be

I breathe

deeply in

out in out

I’m alone

free to be

who I am

I am finely

tuned me

Frustration

Frustration

Seeps out my pores

annihilates him

he lets me know

We are locked

in disharmony

it is my rock

to bare

In the Overall

I had words in my head

to address the overall

he interrupted thought,

said, “What about him if

I don’t take care of me?”

He is right as it is about

having a child again

complete responsibility

for someone else who 

depends upon me. 

In the overall is demand

I am swimming away

from the octopus sucking

me down a dark crevasse

I had words in my head.

War

War

I can't understand war at all

I especially can't understand

when war kills civilians 

accidentally in harms way

mistaken causalities

 

and then

there's nerve gas

that kills innocents in a

diabolical way

I can't understand war at all

I can't understand nerve gas

used on anyone at all

diabolical it kills in horrific ways

How can anyone unleash

such suffering on anyone

especially innocents 

we are all innocents 

except those diabolic ones