Sleep with a wrench
For my protection
Always from violent men
Who head my family
Never been struck

Always threatened of my life

They all sleep with guns
Fear their transgressions
Committed and damage done
Eyes ever open
Rage that they failed

Whatever standard was set

It makes me worry so hard
My matriarch
Can't take shock to a failing heart
How easy would it be
With this metal beat
Respect into
Their heads

In flux
Forever
To no end
Will it end?
(I hope not)
I hope so
I can't lose
If I lose
My mother
She loses
She's dying
Till I win
Will I win?
(I hope not)
I hope so
I run for
The hills with
My good drugs
Forever
In flux

We say
Time
We mean
Life

Time is when you wake up and when you stay in and don't leave until you're ten minutes late for work because you need to look your best
And
Time is when you sit in silence in front of the same television for years watching the same shows you've seen a hundred times and hear the hour hand on the same old clock slowly travel until the Sun's gone
And Time
Is when you're sleeping and eating and bathing and loving and building and breaking and moving on and coming home and leaving for good and returning one last time because time got
the very best of you

Time happens
and the measure is your keen perception
and so you don't feel time as it happens

Life is
When you stop to breathe
And stop to place the pieces
And realize there are pieces lost
And missing and you look down lost
As the soil falls

Hard Fall
Dead Winter
Soft Spring
Suddenly Summer
Rehash

All the needles on the ground I found
and cigarette butts
Create the frame of this city-town
and liberate us

Liberate?
Indenture
Is a better descriptor
Should you beat elitism
Peace and Love?
Progressive?
Truth is lost to history
Should you read you see schism

From one bridge looking North
I see at least five more bridges
Westside and East split by a river
This is a long, long division

And it's not stopped