Like Humans
Often we just take.
Make mindless glistening mistakes
Betray or spite
An easy slip
Of thumbs, hot heads
Of brutal lips.
Without a sound
We crash we burn.
Impart hushed secrets -
Never learn.
Lure in, push out
All those we need
Diverted by intrinsic greed.
Like Humans
Break
Drop tears, drop oathes
One day adores
The next year loathes.
Wake up in pangs of hungry guilt
That feeds off
Monstrous walls we built.
Like Humans
Bricking up the past,
Hearts incontent
Our dead eyes glassed.
And torturing ourselves
With pride
To act forgiven
Swiftly hide -
Like Humans will
In cowardice, shame
Forever scrounging
Scraps of blame
To pin on any other fool
Forgetting - memories are cruel.
Breathe concrete promises
All night
Snatch each one back
By one small fight.
Cross out.
Start fresh.
Rip out a page.
With every fuckup
Feel skin age.
Like Humans
Haunted, taunted on.
Chained in regrets,
And always wrong.
Out of our minds
Trying to map
A life line which just
Wilts to crap.
Like humans
Die. Then die again
At trembling hands
Of Human Men.
We're gentle, tender
Hateful, bruised
Never fogiven but accused.