Sunshine lips

He gave her a jealous caring treat

and all of earth's footsteps stood still

Yet I see her smiling at the honey sunshine lips

before the dawn 
while my heart quakes 

she will drown
drown to be taken away by the waves
to be for their meat, these swimming strings

Dreaming you away

Though i wished my tongue and hands all
could have done what they were made for

rather than in their holes and by the side

Though lay we not on the same bed

and yet felt I your pulse and heard your breath

Though i will soon leave your sight

will I still dream you away

long when I awake

from his deep dream of peaceful love

within the deep depths of waters' noise

The Ground Will Rejoice In Our Sorrow

 

So feared, awesome and mighty

You keep coming and coming

And never tired

Never to spare any for a penny

 

Death, yes it was you

You took away the dear loss

Not that accident or that illness

 

You come to take that tired part of us

From where it was placed

Because earth, its owner still cried for it

Earth will rejoice in our sorrow

When eyes wet with cries

 

The smell of flesh

Fresh

Covered in casket

In suit

I know not if I will carry

Or once more let it tarry

 

I will never say good bye

Because you still live

Even in my dreams

Where I always pass you by

 

© Leander David (5/2/2022)

Pending funeral of my Dad

Bitter buds sweeter when it flowers

All gaily the sparrows on the tall tree high

train not to sing their choruses in the morn

An ensemble which only surges ahead by day

not knowing where their prey may be

will harvest where they have not tilled

Like flower lilies bereft of cozy costumes

pretty appears when always in bloom

In splendor, magnificence and grandeur

be wields the eye leaving it in esthetic glory

with buds bitter to taste, sweeter when it flowers    

Dedicated to TA Deborah

Time To Pause And Reflect

Yet another time to pause

and enter into reflections

How it has all happened

Following your thoughts not on him

as if all that matters was Him;

And Him who allows all things

will allow what you don’t think.

IT WILL PASS YOU BY

Round and round the circus goes

Laden with a composite spill: innocent blood

He is not death

But the trumpet that precedes it

From Asia and Europe

Among the sons and daughters of the sun at last

Like rumors now reality

Legs and hearts breathe their last

And can save no vaccine no cure

The brave men hide

The wise men run

The weak wonders how to survive

Just a cough, a handshake

Just a sneeze, a spit

That contact, that fluid exchange

Prices high, schools close down

Everything moving to a stand still

… The circus still goes

Innocent blood falling down

Stay calm

And do the right

You’ll finally find

It passing you by

Leander David ©2020

Onions close to the eyes

Burning desires which left painful ashes

Have been sprinkled on my tongue to lick

Bitter than gall what appealed to the nose

Which in a sneeze was forced out

And filled full the wind pipe

Oh now what winds followed these painful actions

Opened eyes which will acclaim others and not me

Goodbye said and well said

Should not be like onions close to the eye