Wednesday, December 4, 2013

the dark side of poetry 1: new holiday


New holiday

 

The holidays are here; it’s cold outside.

The joy is spreading, no need to hide.

Moms baking cookies, Santa’s drinking milk.

The holidays are easy always smooth as silk.

 

Cold air outside and smiles around the fire.

The holidays are joyful; we never tire.

 

But I can’t help but think that something isn’t right.

One day of peace and hope, a day without fright.

Where is the bloodshed? Where is the hate?

Where is the lonely man forced to masturbate?

It seems superficial, fake, and a ruse.

One night with love on the news.

 

Why don’t we kill each other? Why don’t we complain?

One night a year without crashing planes.

 

The Jews suing the Christians, over a stupid tree.

An entire movie about rent and fees.

An entire day we forget our plight.

I can’t accept it, no it isn’t right.

Like America after nine eleven;

A country united over angels now in heaven.

 

How can we forget our differences and our most dire pain?

The blank white peace drives me insane.

 

Why not a new holiday? Blood for snow?

Why not a time where life really blows?

The falling snow is eerie, so calm and serene.

It blankets the world in a pure white scene.

The snow covers any hasty tracks

Leaving the dead to freeze and killers to attack.

 

The color of the blood on the new fallen snow

Like a Rorschach of death in a crimson glow.

 

Why can’t we have a new holiday full of sadness and dread?

Where children lie screaming underneath their beds.

A new holiday for the blind and the lost.

Fallen souls reaping their costs.

A new day for death and desire,

Where pain and suffering never tires.

 

This new holiday. Call it the herald of broken harps.

Angels dead covered in tattered torn tarps.

Why not shed some blood on what we used to know?

Fuck some bitches and do some blow?

 

This new holiday I really adore.

No hope for innocence, love deplored.

Men and women abroad scream for mercy,

No light or hope will they ever see.

This holiday of doom and gloom; no compare.

The blood and lies running through your hair.

 

Christmas is a celebration of Christ’s great birth.

Capitalism and greed is what its worth.

What was once a time for love and peace,

Has become a world of reckless greed.

 

A new holiday is at the end of our battered path.

Keep going this way; you’ll bring its wrath.

 

Living in blissful ignorance and blinded faith.

We walk to the bowels of unholy wraiths.

A dream deferred becomes a realm of nightmares.

The path we walk becomes M. C. Escher’s stairs.

 

Why can’t we celebrate this new holiday?

Turn words to murder with what we say?

Spend the day boiling in the lobster’s pot

Spend nights so cold we wish it was hot.

Endless agony and complete insanity.

This new holiday inside of me.

 

A world united is a threat to none.

A world at war is a crisis in the sun.

 

A new holiday swimming in blood and guts.

Skeletons doing the Charleston strut.

Pop culture murdering our next generation.

Catholics dead from masturbation.

 

This new holiday is nothing but swell

Cause it’s all you get when you wake up in hell.

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