ROBERT LEE FRAZIER Sense of
Inevitability
I can endure life’s sorrows
piled high up on my shoulders.
Like great mounds raised
up for heathen gods!
Yet the smallest bit of happiness
sends me crawling for cover.
It’s like a deep breath
before an icy plunge.
I wait helplessly,
with a dark sense of inevitability.
that has been learned from years
of disappointments.
I can endure life’s sorrows
But happiness makes me afraid.
Hello Mister Midnight
Hello Mister Midnight,
It’s me your old friend
Looks like I’ve been screwed by insomnia again.
I wish it were amnesia so I could forget –
The lights are off
But it doesn’t matter,
I’ve memorized the layout of the rooms.
I feel a strange comfort
Just listening to the breathing
From my children as I tip-toe through the halls.
The calm and the quiet
Ease my pain a little
Maybe things will be better tomorrow?
The Faces of Death
I have seen fire,
roll across the skin of a living man
who was caught between flame & fuel,
burning brighter than the sun.
I have seen ice,
crack across the face of a young man,
whose heart stopped
as he was turning blue in the sea.
I have seen wind,
race across the face of a small boy,
who was mashed in a motor accident.
They will all be with me – forever.
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