Jet sets all corners Neither here nor there Touchdown low profile Flashy car speeding past I use to live there as a delinquent The sounds of the sirens got them hooked hopeless wanton The incantations echoes in minds That feeds the Insomniac Our new hellos And goodbyes Are only apparitions Partly clichéd partly prodigal Until we see them concussed shredded in colours of shade and shame jolted by our own pain... Slain into a state of compassion Our hearts prepare a banquet On a budget of prodigious love
Our children tread disdainful trenches into our hearts but love for them is the balm that sooths the pain there is light in loving