Sunday, December 3, 2023

Passed Away


Top hat, top hat
pray, pray, pray,
beards of ashes
leading the way:
to heaven's pearls,
to sorrow days, of
penitence and food array.

Top hat, top hat
gather the faithful, stay
by the tomb, by the past
by the things that lead us stray..

Once here, one day gone
it is our destiny to roam
this earth, this city, this play
until death come and take us away.



Grab the shovel and throw the dirt
on the one who went away: count
one, two, three and strike the ground hard

15,000 times, ongoing slaughtered


don't let it display the need to feel 

the pain of being alive and well

why our love ones pass away

we must go on says the prayer

of those who stay

we must keep the memory of the brother, sister

buried on the cold and dark ground


we walk away and leave you behind

our hearts filled with sorrow

our mind empty of all the molecules that make the universe expand away

We are no more too, like you.