Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Artist's House

(This is a real place that exists in New York State. True Story!)
along a wined back road in the silence of autumn, There lies a memory of a happier time. A forest once large and beautiful, now dull with its trees ashy gray. The once crisp driveway stands for only a stripe of mud.
Some time, after walking down that desolate driveway, you reach a house. Or, what remains of it. It was hand made by an artist years ago, once Davine yet modern. With his own two hands he cut, shaped and piled the stones to build his home. After sixteen months, his house was complete.
However, that was then, and this is now.
half burned to the ground, the house remains. Bits of stone broken from the fire lay crippled in the dirt.
The house was gone, and so was its memory and creator.
Today, the remains stand as proud as before, till it is lost by humanity and crumbles from decades of untouched love.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Can You (extended version)

Can you believe that violence grasps our world?
Can you understand the pain it brings, not to one, but many?

Can you hear the women crying from the touch of the large ice cold hands of strange men that hid in the ally ways? Hear the mother's sob for the lost of their sons from war?

Can you taste the blood that fills a victim's mouth from the brutal attack of a street gang? Taste the lies that are told to a parent from a teen to protect their stash of drugs?

Can you feel the shaking of an abused child's body, whipped, stabbed, punched, and kicked? Feel the hole in your chest when a angered high scholar shots a gun at you for calling him a*&%?

Can you smell the stench of death from the lifeless body of a thin manged pet that was abused since they were born? Smell the alcohol from a drunk that wishes to hang himself for the loss of his wonderful life?

Can you believe this hate, this pain exists?
Can you believe it happens everyday of every second?

Can you believe it only when you see it?