CONFESSION ZERO

Enough! Cease thy celebration of defeat! Bring around the desiccated love-blooms, sentiments of a shadowy reverence, carting in more darkness than illumination… Enough! Cease thy celebration of defeat! Usher in the loud wounds and thoughts, exhale narrow prayers within the sky, like war-games strafing the surface of the sun… Enough! Cease thy celebration of defeat! Draw out the defamed blood from the veins of steel and warfare, allow it to inhale no more, to finish its ache and ashen rhyme… Enough! Cease thy celebration of defeat! Summon the dogs of war from their musty grotto, prop their rigid hands up to surrender, in recognition of kinship to one another… Enough! Cease thy celebration of defeat! Down, long before the count, one, two- Time’s up! Stumble now for meaning, for reason, for truth to wrap me safely away before collapse… © 2011 by mark prime

Al Qaeda's elusive leader Usama bin Laden is dead,  BBC reports... . Tick tock, “USA”! Thunder rumble, boom boom! As I sauntered amid the ruins of war, one eye on my back, the other under the bed, my child cried its colors, “ Nevermore! ”.  Horror sent legions of the angry up into the sky, then sandward fell the fear-tipped beams of dread upon a whole host of hands wearing peace like a ring. From a shadowy crag and through the head, the deed’s been done, a casualty of the countless rings out! The bogeyman sleeps ! Death reigns supreme!  Noise trumped sound, hatred more than Love, battle before breath, madness, reason, deceit smothered truth. Bitter revenge  plummeted sandward, another death among the half-living ... O breathe creation’s mist into these, my tainted lungs, cloaks of complicity settling a bar tab made of flesh… © 2011 by mark prime Usama bin Laden