promises

 

run with me brother

run with me brother

let’s run from the village

from dirt floors and mud puddles

and machete men now coming

run with me brother

let’s run to the mountains

add our history to the cave art

armed cannibals and new diseases

run with me brother

let’s run to the river

if we survive the harsh rapids

we’ll drown peacefully at sea

run with me brother

let’s run one more time

we’ll catch speed and take flight

joining angels on their playground

longing for a piece

of such supple flesh

reaching to be reached

pressing against pressed

involuntary sighs

bouncing through the night

lit only by the moon

and the growing glow of you

when the dead are gone

fighting cancer with an attitude

i heard it in her voice

she will fight this in anger with a

pissed off strength that will

decimate the cells of

malignant enemies

laying waste of her liver

because she can’t go now...

she has to be here for them

she has to be here for him

because she can’t go right now

his support is just as angry

carries a weapon and wears a badge

but he can’t handcuff this cancer bloom

and he can’t shoot these killers among the innocent

and there’s no combat protocol for this anarchy

and there’s no negotiating with these mute assassins

and i’m no different...

my anger is a barrier deflecting religion

i am pissed off to the point that we have to be

to engage her mind to win this battle

fuck you mother nature

fuck you divine plan

fuck destiny, fuck fate, fuck every

expert-in-their-field prognosis

fuck the chemo, fuck exhaustion

fuck the first cell that thought

taking my sister was going to be easy

i heard it in her voice

... no tears

... no quit

as fire bites

as fire warms the arctic sting

of Winter’s bitter winds

the fields begin their steady thaw

  she warms up to a glow

as fire swipes the mountainsides

and meadows clear for Spring

the fields are ripe for new beginnings

  she becomes a seed within

as fire bites the earth alive

from streams of Summer’s sun

the fields grow deep and pretty-plushed

  she thrives in perfect bloom

as fire climbs into a blaze

matured for Autumn’s approach

the fields explode to kaleidoscope hues

  she radiates an infinite spectrum