A Shared Fire Poem by Eric Cockrell

light the fire...
put on some coffee!
i care enough to listen,

if you care enough to talk.
the wall of angry silence
between us must fall....

this road is long,
and we have a long way to go!
what we feel when no one

can see us, when no one
else is near, when darkness
wraps us up in secretive blankets,

must come to light!
this world full of danger and hate,
the earth itself moans for change!

bodies walk by in ghostlike trance,
empty stares, feet moving without sound....
mouths open, waiting for deliverence....

the snowlike stillness swallows need,
new birth groans beneath frozen death....
we are the candle, we are the flame,

the road waits, as if a friend!