I remember now.
I built a mile high stadium.
Stupid show,
look what Hookah did
in the center of your program.
We’ll always have that voice.
I would murder in words anything I tried to say.
We have our long lists
of hurt that’s been put out there.
It’s how we tax the world.
It’s how we feel better about ourselves.
Would an actor see that?
And if I reduce it to a role,
do I bleed responsibility?
Do I reduce it to an abstraction
in the places I’ve bleeded reality,
the places I’ve burn?
I’ve grabbed the sun,
live on a height of thought and life
I write about all the time.
I see the representation,
the symbol we all are.
It eves my day.
What then?
How is it possible to hurt someone and not know their pain
because you’re a writer of sky dreams?
I communicate with the dead,
have them all around me,
each little life I’ve lit on fire
in the bucket of intimacy.
I don’t think the possibilities of healing surround your room.
You are not stark walking the symbol.
You know the outer lair.
An inside all day long,
you don’t approach that.
You don’t know what it’s like to love the world
in those places you’re sorry,
breathing those words all day long
to a you know you’re heard
way beyond man.
I don’t think you’re aware of the price you pay
when you become aware of man.
The pain you feel humanity.
But on the cutting edge of this
is who I make it up to,
a little boy growing in time.
He represents you.
He represents the world’s eyes,
and I am there for him.
We can take joy on the Earth,
sweet, innocent and kind,
holdin’ our humanity close.
It’s not all a razor blade.
We can get sweet on the Earth,
and when you get home,
you can love the world like a little boy,
and your representation grows.
Tag: remorse
Can We Find Forgiveness?

A poem by Donny Lee Duke
This is like fire. This is electricity, horses, I don’t know. Take the sound off. You have a pay by go guide, a living tree. What do I do with it? It’s not of public interest. You hear me? Magical, it broadcasts the sun. I just sit here and read it. It’s got lives in it. It’ll tell you anything you need to know. So much to hear. I’m not fond of it where poems are concerned. It’s like a tunnel I have to go through. It’s got me until the end. Can you say it? Let’s twist the words around I’m sorry, can you meaning? No, it’s not a broken muse. I’m godawful sorry for things. I don’t know how to show this to you. Do I take my hat off? I think about you a lot, where feeling meets life. I don’t drag my wrong through my mind at every moment. I think about how you feel. I put myself in your shoes. Remorse has this as a gun. Repentance means these words and a lifetime of service to humanity. I gut feeling this. I’m racked by your pain, sit at my computer and cry when I encounter it, or in my mind’s eye when I rove around the world. Your loss rents my breast, the pain of the tortured child, the destroyed city, the puppy dog that’s lost its owner, the man that’s done something wrong, terribly hurt somebody. I want to gather you all up in my arms a power of God to heal, but I have not God’s strength, and I can only feel my inadequacies to help. Let me tell you my strategy. I have a world in front of my face, all these people I care for, tend to when they’re sick, encourage them when they’re down, counsel them when they need, cook for them when they’re hungry, shop for them when they need things, carry their dreams in my heart to help give some interpretation. I listen to them. I hold their hands. Half of them are dogs. A puppy is to me a human child, and I spend all day with one, giving her that special attention, and with a human child, giving that concentrated care. It’s how I take care of you. When I look in their little eyes I see all the world. Can you feel me here? I am a servant of mankind. I am my brother’s keeper, and I love you so very much. Have you heard me? Forgiveness is a model for the road to understanding. It’s not something you do like a magic out of thin air. We know not yet the issue of our deeds. We cannot see their fount. We have a whole ride to do that, a great big storybook to learn. It takes inner searching to a degree most are uncomfortable with. Understanding comes that way, in the middle of forgiveness. Can we learn forgiveness? Can we bring peace on earth?

