into the distance I gaze a flight of fancy awaits with wings spread soaring towards the sun like Icarus and Lucifer I thought, I thought of everything warning lights ignored navigator long since departed on a wing and a prayer flying to close to the sun flew to high and to soon it’s all melting away I’m now freefallin’ like those before me hell to heaven a fall from grace an angel awaits enfolded by ruffled feathered wings healing my wounds with time
© 2018 michael d emmerich
poets writers journalists standing back pens poised prophesy awaits philosophize with your pens write it all unabashed always the last word the might of graphite bleeding gray stronger than steel but oh so fragile poets down there write nothing at all just stand backs to the wall waiting for words to tumble pens and swords a clash of unequal minds both carry lead of a different weight although one is …. eternal
© 2017 michael d emmerich
truth at the flip of a coin heads or tails you still lose do not adjust your set even if it is out of focus blurred lines merging into a gray morass indecipherable enigma's everything and next to nothing reality is transformed fact becomes fiction life becomes reality alternate is the new the norm art is no more drink and feast for tomorrow you die
© 2017 michael d emmerich
what lies over the horizon what is at the end of the road a light? an escape? a void? a sigh of relief or an expectation overcome with emotion weak at the knees weak must be strong stand tall breath deep savour the end the light rapidly advances emerging into ….....
© 2017 michael d emmerich
air goes in and out blood goes round and round that says the medic keeps you alive in sickness and death illness and injury not all goes as it should this is well noted blood and guts sickness and death that last ….. potential breath affirms our quest intimacy with death fuels our passion in life in its abundance ours and yours … the next patient
© 2017 michael d emmerich
the evil that men do
in the name of a god
is not in god’s name
but rather
evil enacted
in their name
hypocrisy prevails
in whose name?
some faceless god?
no…….
just greed
and the face on the lucre
the victorious
the arrogant
the ungodly
there is no god of the righteous
only the greedy
might is not always right
but greed trumps
"in god's name"
is now a lament of regret
what have we become
© 2017 michael d emmerich
ignorance, wisdom two sides of the same sword conviction, divine certainty lends people the will to believe all sorts of atrocities under some banner herd stupidity encourages partaking of the kool aid, seemingly wise people desirous of ignorance choosing to not see what is evident escape from the herd is the only choice to recover ones senses slowly, after all the easiest person to fool is none other but yourself
© 2017 Michael D Emmerich
through a veil I barely see darkness shrouding the land shuttered windows obstruct the view doors firmly closed darkened eaves hold secrets no one drops by there is no need the net was my safe haven but safety net no more with partially opened doors shutters always ajar tabs can reveal more we keep pretending that truth is elusive but no more a version is always within one’s grasp
© 2017 Michael D Emmerich
live on the edge where shadows nudge night greets day dark flees light past overlooks present a probable future life in the penumbra is a paradox it is viable pulling either way constant conflict to what end seeking what the penumbra? contradictory interrelated elements existing simultaneously persisting for eternity hither and thither clawing, dragged back inexorably, irreversibly to the core of darkness or light
© 2017 Michael D Emmerich
peace in our time para bellum the edge of a precipice staring into the abyss what stares back hard times, hard rain grubby hands hold the sticks drummer boys beat the drum tapping out the march marching to a different beat call for peace, prepare for war closer to midnight solitary voice of a person claiming to be human rings out determined to end the war before it starts enough trouble for whose life time statesmen endeavouring manage, contain war others demand violence, war is justified the service of some greater good power, greed, economics you decide war and peace remain two sides of the same coin to some world without conflict remains unthinkable war must be mankind’s enemy generation to generation conscription and destruction blood, bullets, bombs time in pieces peace love compassion understanding values demanding a voice are we ready prepare for war fight for peace that elusive contradictory condition peace in our time make it real!
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
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