See Hearts, Once Reeling Poem by Little Eagle McGowan

See hearts, once reeling
… bright as the morning....
Now they sink like the sun...
Those who dared feeling
as a child without warning,
Seen as lepers and shunned
Cold street, hungry dreamin'
Starved emotions crawling
As'f the ice age has come.
Lives… bereft of meaning
Petrified of expression
Where love's on the run.

Can the ground not embrace
the dry leaves of autumn,
left there at her breast?
The banks of the river trace,
Not usher spring's portion,
In rushing watery zest?
Darkness not melt so chaste
her lover's name mentioned,
by daylights arms caressed?
Sky dances in starry lace
In pirouetting perfection,
sans earth's whirling grace?

Unnatural strangers to life
Alien to all forgiveness
Citizens of Imperial death...
Birth of compassion is rife
And no indebtedness
Gratitude for mortal breath..
When for mercy you cry
For all of your weaknesses;
The noose round your neck..
Tightens into blindness! Aye
your soul in dark abysses
Leaves justice unredressed.

In a slum in some city limit
A child this moment cries
As the rain drips slow inside
And Children in a corner sit
Human feces to one side
Sirens in alleyways outside
A little stove of mud is lit
A meal from garbage refried
Everyone waiting wide eyed
A stray dog comes to visit
Tail wagging off the flies
makes the little boy smile.