The Embrace
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I just through this one out there because I felt like it not too much thought was put into it. don't worry I didn't over think it and I don't want anyone else to either.
"The Embrace"
In the apathy of a
corporate world
Commercial here,
commercial there
I live within air
quotes
Pretending I live at
all
To buy, to extort,
to be the product
I am who they say I
am
All persons, so
impersonal just
thriving outside of
nature
Being the drones of
love and war
Working behind
brick, driving
inside metal?
I want to live a
manhood, able to
love freely
Without the confines
of civilized space
and time
I have this much
time to find a
compatible mate
I have this much
geographical space
to do it in
On a nondescript
morning the drive I
drove, went passed a
woman
She wept herself so
thoroughly on the
side of the road
Have run over a
beaver, she wept so
openly
The regret, what
refreshing regret so
Christian-like
I paused, this was
what it took, a sin
to make me feel
And a woman to make
feelings awaken me
I slowed down the
car in empathy,
rather to join her
in sorrow
She looked at me,
the man, to the
beaver, and then
within herself
We all waited for
someone to twitch
The niche of
emotion, that begun
with her silence
Ended with the words
as I got out of the
car
"It's okay, it's
okay, there are
animals in heaven"
I closed my arms
around her shoulders
And said goodbye to
the corporate world
Copyright © Karl Marszalowicz | Year Posted 2014
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