Against the Acid rain Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014

Against the Acid rain

Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014

WE HAVE TO CARRY ON!
despite dragging our legs
to doctors day and night
kicking and screaming
through back hedges
and front doors to troubles
and tomorrows

WE HAVE TO CARRY ON!
despite the windy
and the windless nights

WE HAVE TO CARRY ON!
despite the loveless cul de sac
we find ourselves within
from time to time
pins and needles
draw blood
from the motions
of a duel
between brother and another
between visible and invisible
Men! Oh Men!
Are captives to the fortress of fear
and her incredible armies

WE HAVE TO CARRY ON!
from the city of the mannequin
Art Thou made of cardboard
or Art Thou made of Steel?
But my does a man bend
in the burning acid rain

Is it alright to feel
this hurt
to touch this wound
and Carry on?
I walked in the valleys
of the leveled men
who limp with leveled minds
they limped for the gaping
hunger of love
and wandered into fields
of acid rain
it burned they're faces
with pot-marks
like foul memories
but my they
turned from youths
into veterans
of the world
and its unkind entourage


Soldiers of steel
are taught to be
and less to feel
for creatures
with a beating heart,
fester
roam
and learn in love
learn it well
and your heart
shall be a heart of gold
But God is it the toughest
of toughs
TO CARRY ON!