The Crying Road

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. - Thoreau

lost on the flyblown, forsaken high road

pockets full of unspendable, wrinkled money

way past the point where things are no longer funny

parched

barren

lonely

one more boulder in the a wall that's high and stony

time to find out what's real and what's phony

make or break

give more that's not there or renege and take

gumption impotent

something imminent as tears dampen a long-forgotten smile

a soft shoe shuffle in the reduced for quick sale grocery aisle

waiting for the verdict in a long, ugly trial

tell me

who's gonna drag the cross for the last mile

Author's Note

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see." - Thoreau

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

or they will believe what they are told....

a certain leader has pulled the wool over the eyes of his own people...he has the highest approval rating ever, and deservedly so for all of the mass killing he is doing in the name of defending his country against attack....that grocery aisle you mention, blown up with the rest of what was a store...a life...
if there is a God...there will be punishment....and severe I would imagine.
j.

[Pete]

if what i heard on the news last night is half true, that man can't be human. how does thinking get so twisted. have we not learned. hitler reincarnated yet again. sick world ... :)