Petal Growing in Arid Ground
Your mien told me, that you are
That flower petal in arid ground
When we, level with the astral plane
Amongst the twinkling stars
Back when petal, happy to be
Without interference,
until the powers that be
came for you and for us,
And your people came for us,
Too, with their hate, we didn't
Know how to deal with them any-
More. they muddled our genius
With their thick greedy idiocy,
And unravelled our lives to steal
From us but you'll always be
My precious petal, and even if
They force and bribe, teach you
To abandon me by yourself
Let yourself go to where they ask
Coerce you into hating life, me.
Only then will let you out
of that place, four years of it,
I understand, I have to, nazis.
While our flower grows and grows,
On arid ground, that dark hole.
Douglas MacGowan
Wed 7th Nov 2018 18:36
You capture the conflict between yourself and the subject very well.