Many often question why I often refer to wizard. This poem is a mere iota of what my true life is about. I don't need any reply posts...it is the way it is..so let it be. I'm posting it to give others some understanding.
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My Neighborhood
The silence broken by the sound of sirens
another body being taken somewhere....
perhaps the death-bed watch or
the local undertaker’s care.
An empty fast-food container dumped in the street
to be run-over by a passing vehicle
flattened so only the letters of the name remain
My neighborhood......like a distant counterpart
except it really exists.
I wake at night to screaming voices
“help me...help me” is all I can hear
yet I know there is someone....
where is “there”...
thousands of miles perhaps
from My neighborhood....
still the voices are real.
I drive down the street
a passing sign glances my eye
just a mere “word” but to me it means something....
another place or another time or
another place at the same time
a reflection I see in the world’s mirror
through My neighborhood.
Some say life is “simple” but
to me it is “complex”
connected by chance
or is it truly meant to be that way in
My neighborhood.
03-29-06
carol
wizard2c
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My Neighborhood
The silence broken by the sound of sirens
another body being taken somewhere....
perhaps the death-bed watch or
the local undertaker’s care.
An empty fast-food container dumped in the street
to be run-over by a passing vehicle
flattened so only the letters of the name remain
My neighborhood......like a distant counterpart
except it really exists.
I wake at night to screaming voices
“help me...help me” is all I can hear
yet I know there is someone....
where is “there”...
thousands of miles perhaps
from My neighborhood....
still the voices are real.
I drive down the street
a passing sign glances my eye
just a mere “word” but to me it means something....
another place or another time or
another place at the same time
a reflection I see in the world’s mirror
through My neighborhood.
Some say life is “simple” but
to me it is “complex”
connected by chance
or is it truly meant to be that way in
My neighborhood.
03-29-06
carol
wizard2c
