Legalese Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

Legalese

I was born legalese, part documents of a larger life,
no simplistic means to the whys,
or cluesof origins,

Natural cells mutation, mythology or God's blues experiments

The night's cycles of full moons,
estrange desires and a days combatant,

The salutes of daylights
the species of midnight's sieges,

Weathering the seasons of energies
and ambitions,
For i am a fit crown of a king or a normal woman,

I am a contingent pallbearer,
for my dead colleagues,

I rise as an aboriginal wrath on
wrong occasions,

Ran away as some deserters,
accounted as some casualties of war,

Nature's fury cliffs of fire, water earth, that leaps and dissolves,

The heat of the battles,
The remains of the cavalrymen,
desecrated in the ensuing firefights,

Strewn bits in memorial clashes,
ashes and collapsed materials,

The portmanteau, portraiture, ruin and discomfortng images of contentious mankind,