Eye of the Rapist

"Let the children play For the grown-up is the enemy; Let the children say, "We don't want authority" Let the children run amuck And see what happens to opposition; Let the children pry and pluck At t..."

"what are you looking at? why are you staring? hello? hello? not up to your standards? a hopeless failure? those are what I ask myself as I observe the confused expression on your face; please, don't ..."

"What is this aching? This probing deep down In the pit of my rib cage? As far as I can remember, There is nothing there But a faint echo. Can nothingness hurt? It must be able to, Or else I'd feel s..."

"tears of pollution rusts my face thoughts of redemption so eager to taste never to see the faith a breeze of silence passes through my lips taken back by the ax and reflections that are not mine own ..."

"it was only a dream but what i see next to me across the border from fantasy to reality is a sleeping elderly man with a stressed receding hairline exhausted layering flesh-folds and a cancerous menta..."

"Ghosts in the shadows haunt you, frighten you, and mock you You fear them They are pictures of a life with a preference to be forgotten From your mind Visualizations of times long ago that fester and ..."