August 1, 2011

SCAR



Life’s a flattened Good Year tire.
It's a Jewish woman restrained by wire.

It's a black man hanged up high –
a silhouette against the sky.

It's the passion of a love that burned
although that love was not returned.

It's addiction to escapes.
It's a box of old keepsakes.

A mother's star.
Her son's at war.

Life is a scar.