Switzerland

Switzerland
From my trip to Europe

Monday, December 21, 2009

Poem: Flames In The Sky Like Alcatraz

I stand outside every morning with an empty glass

holding it under the rising sun waiting for it to drip

His orange juice into my hands

that’s why I am so bright you see, i drink the sun

you know they say reach for the stars, well I’m scared of night

and the sun makes me smile just like you do

do i light up your day like my star lights me up

or do I blind you like he blinds me

he has a hold on me you know, he flows the my veins

coarsely coursing through me like sand through a straw

he intensifies and his heat makes me sweat poison

the toxins twist my smile, and shove down my brow

they clench my fingers inward toward my palms

my hair grows long and gray twisting like vines around my neck

my nails grow long and i scratch the pain, restlessly into my skin

my breath lashes and whips, whirling feverish hate beating your ear drums

beating so hard on you, my sun scares you away.

i can feel him alive inside, i feel what he has seen

other galaxies and planets, but none as disguisting as ours

inside me he cries, he sobs and each tear corresponds with my heart attacking

he is the only one that knows the human condition, he chuckles

his chuckles turn to deep bellowing howls shivering through my bones

his tears turn from saline to the angry blood he spits through me

he batters my insides with centuries of suffering

he is my hell in the sky, my reminder that he well always be my devil.

So my sun may beat on you and with rays of light make your day

but my sun he beats...he beats on me in a different way.


By: Mark D. Anderson

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