suppose peace gonna overcome
someday?
I've tried to help old ladies
bums
been a **** drunk discovering
the bottom
my self
given my heart soul and money
to orphaned animals
try to give forward
draw peace signs
in hidden places
and all caps LOVE
I hide in library books about the
holocaust
at times
I've sat giving lectures to the birds
to ants to trees, leaving traces
of my heart at their
root
and they seemed to listen
be aware of man's atrocities
clap applaud at times
I've been a minstrel
self-ministered
drawn on theologies
and pathology
drawn and painted every self-portrait
I could while seeing
nothing
deeper
or wiser than
a sunbeam through limbs on the green
soft grass near a calm stream
hearing her flowing musics
and cried among the bird chirps
and watched for hours
ants toil
trying so hard
so hard
to recognize