It starts with school railings
That's where fear starts
Not with nailing to a metier cross
Beware, my child, upward straining spears,
corralling your whirling
Horses of hope aimed at heaven
But somehow we miss the point,
down the years, avoiding the tricycle
In the hall, drifting
with spindrift friends from bar to bar
The careless lookout for Nirvana
You end up marvelling at a bouquet
Of close-up angers
As red as storms on Mars.
Not caring about who is in pain or the
Wreckage of a passing train
The sun will always awaken
His red ragged horde
Skinned rabbit slivers scattered overhead
And then play an ace, a blue sky
sent to torment you with the thin sound
Of distant childrens' laughter
As you walk in the shadow
Of those thick black bars.
Now is the time to set yourself free
To feel moondust between your toes
To have a bypass in your head
Belong to a more primitive nation
Go on a vacation with an idea
that you can sit on your shoulder,
Soon, you will nurse a cageful
of prowling thoughts
Then do like Superman,
and with your eyes
Move that boulder.
With the troubles of the world today; as seen all over. Nice work.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
The Cage - Wonderful, even though you just started to place your poems online, you must have more out here in other forms, some place? I agree the pecking order and conditioning of life starts in school, then builds, and advances with military training, and University education structure, and other life events. No-matter where were at, the cage of our brain remains.