Nature kills baby (a poem for All Hallows)
Nature kills baby (a poem for All Hallows)
our love wore a silencer
but it still fired a soul,
you carried
my baby like
a bullet baby,
then the devil in the detail
pulled apart DNA's angel hair,
as cells unraveled
as the blood tripped,
as birthday candle
turned back to bee,
as bone crumbled chalk
into the mother board,
as the tears grew hard
in the corners of our eyes
I snuggled you in my arms
and you sang me too little sleep
with a lullaby for the never lived.
jgh(C)2008
our love wore a silencer
but it still fired a soul,
you carried
my baby like
a bullet baby,
then the devil in the detail
pulled apart DNA's angel hair,
as cells unraveled
as the blood tripped,
as birthday candle
turned back to bee,
as bone crumbled chalk
into the mother board,
as the tears grew hard
in the corners of our eyes
I snuggled you in my arms
and you sang me too little sleep
with a lullaby for the never lived.
jgh(C)2008
darren thomas
Wed 29th Oct 2008 09:54
What I enjoy about your poetry Mr jgh, is that, it takes such a long determined suck before you arrive at the good bits. Rather like those stubborn boiled sweets with delicious soft-centers.
Like my mother once said, if anything is worth suckin' - it's worth suckin' well.
NB - please don't be perturbed about the potential for euphomism in the above!