walk a mile .... then we'll talk
A Poem by Matthew L. Arcelay
you know
I cant quite put my finger on it
are we friends
or are we enemies
red beams darting across the midnight air
your thought's fixed capriciously
as you take aim at the figure of me
or the me you figure to be
humor me spare the rumor
just suppose (one moment without the tippy toes)
when i say I've traveled through the desert sands
you can feel the grains fall through your hands
against your feet brushing on your face scratching
and etching time
not only was this path traveled but lived
a lesson learned everyday face to face in the heat
forging me
a soldier
a traveler
a scribe
I see into your glass eye
your visions clouded with peyote dreams
miscounting
mis believing what I've seen
see saw i blood in my brothers eyes
one by one falling down to hell
led through ash with lead
cannons coughing up coffins
I should be insane but no I'm intact
while others that should be here are not
I see what you see but you'll never see what I saw
frustrated you hammer in your thought's
dedicated to the craft
yet lost in thought
walk a mile
then we'll talk .......
write from the spirit
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© 2008 Matthew L. Arcelay
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Added on April 21, 2008
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Matthew L. ArcelayBrooklyn, NY
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hello my name is Matthew L. Arcelay ... i'm a poet mostly and i write under a few names
mostly as write from the spirit, but i also use others .....
guess i feel with each it gives me a different pe.. more..
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