THE NOOSE HANGS HOPES HIGH

David by the car, 

Roger over my shoulder, 

then not, 

The showdown. 

So Frank did you come, to apologize. 

"He just wants you to say I'm sorry.”

“I just want to get along.” 

Julie, big and bad. 

Todd, a big nervous smile. 

John sided up. 

Deborah, oblivious as always 

tears and sniffles, and gestures, 

and declarations of unarmedness. 

The blazing white son, 

the black wasp, the gravel road, 

on bicycle tires, 

why, why - wide... open... Sky. 

Misunderstanding. 

brain damage 

Support the troop? Leave him alone. 

The movie character: veteran 

trauma alone, on the mountain, 

only the dog. 

But not with child, 

stuck in society, cookouts 

and church functions, pool parties 

and football games, 

only the dog, and everyone. 

She says, happiness should be shared, 

I have none to share, happiness 

only causes sadness, the light is temporary. 

The light bulb, even the sun, both burn out. 

Only darkness remains. 

She says "peace comes from within,” 

and she says "happiness is meant to be shared.” 

But happiness can cause sadness, 

for those who aren’t happy. 

Like waving a steak 

in front, of a starving mouth, that 

will never taste it. For the truly depressed, 

for the melancholy, happiness is but a tease, 

and a destroyer of peace. 

Remember when you were young, 

you shined like a cave. Black hole sky, 

happy Stars interrupting the infinite dark. 

They want to kill the monster, 

they project fear, and fear projects. 

Fear projects, love projects, 

and fear projects the 

Love project. 

love or fear, can't grasp both, 

can't grasp the love, cuz too much fear projects

can’t extinguish the fear, to grab the love. 

Backing away, backing away, 

from the love, because of fear. 

from the community, backing away, 

next the family, backing away, 

then the woman, backing away, 

the boy, the boys, the boys and girls, all,

 the love. Backing away, the fear projects, 

upon all, the children of God. the children, 

left only in fear, the young children. The grown children, 

adults love the fear. 

Left abandoned, in the land of abandoned loveless, fear. 

Love screams in the darkness.

love your father, fear god, 

love your mother, fear the planet, 

love your neighbor, fear The stranger,

love your enemy, fear the terrorist, 

love the animals, fear the food, 

love the earth, fear the plastic, 

love the leader, fear the president, 

love the nation, fear the media,

love the military, fear the war,

love the beer, fear the drugs, 

like comment subscribe, 

love the money, fear the banks, 

love the life, fear the death. 

Something, everything, doesn't add up, 

mixed messages messages mix. 

No sense, to be made. 

Lost alone. And afraid. 

In a world, never made. 

The noose hangs the hopes high. 

Perspective, point of view, perception 

equals reality, division versus unity, 

how wrong our perception

often is, we all live 

in alternate realities

“he was an a******” 

"you were an a****** 

Shine your perception, 

blind you to the Stars, reality .

Firecrackers, blast away hope, 

high, high, high, hopes. 

Cheese and firecrackers, 

blast away, high, high, high, hopes. 

The noose hangs, the hopes high. 

Kim Jong and the Donald. 

A momentous day in history. 

Crazy Frank and the Marker. 

A momentous day is history. 

He did his work, 

brought together that which fractured, 

and off he goes, 

into history. 

The noose hangs 

hopes high