Elucidating Questions

It may not be the same as what you do when you hope and pray

Someone will save you

Instead I take a breath and call the slithering wind

Fill the vapour with the thoughts of the rains of a thousand years of tears

And breathe out

And hope it reaches before they get burnt out

Mercury’s silence

Rain

Cloud

Mist

Watery

And Windy.

Because it’s all I can do.

Just like you.

Praying and hopeful

I take a breath, do as I can, and then ask for aid.

He thought standing in front of me would stop me

He tried to tell me that the knife isn’t the way

Songs about scissors and if it’s not playing someone will walk by and say

Scissors

Like the guy on the television made a reference to 300

After I called the Spartans.

Flying on the wings of a crow

I pay them in goldfish crackers

It seems I have a fair exchange

I don’t owe the Spartans anything

Certainly not the three hundred

Though I admire their courage in a weird backwards

You literally knew you were going to die and didn’t even really buy that much time but you went anyways good for you

Because they were soldiers

Who never stopped being soldiers

War is suicide

Mass double triple suicide

Once it was how we shipped out the undesirable

Oh yes it was

Canon fodder, while the picked stayed home safe making plans in their tents

But veiled in this cheap

Short lived

Unimportant

Fundamentally inconsequential

Massively minute

National pride

They die often, awfully, and in the slow and painful way.

Who’s to say Canada will even be here in twelve years why would I fight for a country that doesn’t know what its own ideals are let alone who it is where it’s going and what it wants to do with its short fucking life.

You say no, lalala, I love my country.

South Korea

Germany

India

Thailand

“The middle East”

Russia

Hungary

Austria

England for fuck’s sake

Canada if you expand the data range to two hundred years

Countries don’t live

Are you fucking insane?

They die every day and are reborn again.

It’s not the fucking country,

It’s the people who live in it.

Fighting for a country

What is a country?

Tell me what is it?

You made everyone get one

So we could all relive it.

Forgotten

I’m so used to it it doesn’t shock it’s just a full ache

Forgotten

Making plans but they fall through because I’m forgotten

I told you I couldn’t trust anyone

She’s kind but I don’t think I’ll ever have a friend again

Because I’m always forgotten

Out of sight

Entirely out of mind

I don’t know when I was cursed

But I can’t break it by myself

And everyone does this

The irony of “Lest we Forget” digs into my skin like the knife with poisonous stingers inflicting a sting that never escapes

And forget they did forget they did

Rows upon rows of hundreds of thousands of lives lost for no reason

No you see because when they got there they weren’t trying to save anyone

The war was fought for backroom politics as usual

Lest we Forget

But they didn’t know to begin with

Dying for oil

Dying for the West’s disease

Dying for killing someone who killed someone else

State sanctioned mass murder

State sanctioned mass suicide

You want to protect the world from terror?

What terror?

You want to protect the world from communism?

Are you certain a world power just didn’t see the end of its power and destroy anything it could?

Lest we Forget

The horrors of war

And romanticise it and glorify it and demand it

Oops

They did it again.

Rome?

Sparta?

Oh, sorry.

They’re dead.

Because they fought themselves to death

How many times must the tears fall before the hearts become honest

If only I could express my thoughts

The hearts of those instead of the ears

Afraid of the neverending night I pray to the far away stars

Here we are spinning and moving along the circle of time searching for love

Even in wanting to be stronger

We stare at the far away sky

And how am I to face you, what expression should I use?

If your heart was able to reach its dreams

Beyond the sadness there should be a heart that can accept happiness and sleep

And if all the souls were able to find eternal peace

The circle of time that we spin around

We know something by living in the laughter and the tears

Forced to continue walking forward to tomorrow

If there was a place that was warm and so sweet

The future they speak of

Is shining as they do

So shine

And as we travel around in this instance of time

We still search for love

The stronger we become the more we stare at the sky

And in this spinning whirling time we have come to know something

That by laughter and tears

There’s only the option to move forward.

Because beyond the deep forest

There should still be an answer hidden beneath the ground

And in our exhaustion

We disappear into the endless night

Wandering eternally losing the things as we go, bit by bit

Voices fading into the darkness

Continuing on without realising the changing world or the blue of the sky

If only the voices of the oceans and sky

Could cause the moment to take flight

No matter how far we go we continue believing and searching for the light

Walking forward

Without you

And we of the things lost as we live on, losing more and more

The lies that pile up

And drown out our voices

Even though we’re lost we keep going further forward

Along this never ending road

To eternity

Stopped dead in the tracks

Without a voice

Living on

For eternity.