May The Force Be With You

 

Army

A Prayer

In the kingdom of the blind

Desire

Look at the sky

Freedom : I

The Ship

________

That Night

was
cruel the sea was     
inked
as black as the sky.

and the master of work laughed aloud
cracking his lash,
               one eye/broken teeth
               matted hair/torn clothes
and the smell of burning tar
though we had not eat or drunk for 5 days.

5 days
(now mindless and shaking)
hauling upon the ropes
that gore our calloused hands we
searched in vain for even
the most feeble breeze.

a whisper
a dying sigh
a mumbled prayer

that which will lead us
from her sickening gaze

That sun ...a hated ball
              in a hated sky

and
caught I was
stealing food
from their diminishing store
they bore my body to the front deck
(too weak to resist)
and drove nails through it
and through the wood

and/the pain inside
shattering the bones of my hands
like neon rods

and/the crazed among them
licking at my spilling blood
for want of drink

and singing their lunatic songs
they gathered about me and
stamping their feet in time
               one eye/broken teeth
               torn clothes/matted hair
               their lunatic eyes
watched
I watched

that hated ball
in that hated sky
bore down and
bore down and
burned my skin
slowly
slowly (my skin)
and my hands

………my hands
my hands……....

I
wishing that I would pass out

writhed terrifyingly beneath the iron
binding my palms to the oak

The scream sounding hollow and far away.

Endless
Nameless

Kolam I.II.III