thirty years since Mark gunned you down thirty years, passed like a long sleepless night that ends with taunting morning light no brilliant sunrise grandly pronouncing a glorious new dawn of man although that would have been your plan with your entreaties to give peace a chance and imagine, imagine, imagine
now I kneel in this rain gray park like a reject from some holy ark a pilgrim in doleful disappointed pose after seeing what your earthly brothers chose was not to imagine a world of peace and love but to wear reality like a cast iron glove making mockery of your martyred chants proceeding like a billion scurrying ants deaf to your childlike pleas
across the soaked soil where your ashes lay yesterday and todayβ¦and tomorrow I feel the soggy sorrow that you would have felt if you could still see all the rage of humanity
(written 7 years ago on the 30th anniversary of the ****** of John Lennon)