Ivy Crown
(with apologies to William Carlos Williams)
Listen - I said to you -
if you think we can last
another year
or another day
Then give me your hand,
Please let's try to make
it through
without mention
of ideology, you know how
I hate that. I want to
wear a crown
of ivy
and dance through the forest
of my regrets and your
fallen enemies
and loves.
Instead you hold me here
against the harsher wood
of no understanding
and demand
of me the sacrificial blood,
my soul, a lock of my hair,
too many
questions.
How can you lie there
and think of freedom when
the smoke
surrounds
our heads and cuts away
our breaths?
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