formidably frank

famothless
fallacy
follows
formless
fragility
forward
forever

© 2008 BY W GARY FORRESTER

to war

to war to war
to go to die
to war to war
to grieve and cry
to war we go
to set things right
to death we go
to go in fright
to die in vain
to shed fallow blood
to pour refrain
to weep and mourn
to plow the grave
to widowed scorn
to rend the soul
to even the score
to war to war
to war to war

© 2008 BY W GARY FORRESTER

homeless

darkness settles across the eastern sky
a silent foreboding of what's to come
salient embrace of the fears of man

the chilling wind caresses the skin
a leviathan claw slicing the flesh
cruel reminder of society's hand

a shivered glance longs for warmth
or soothing touch of lingering breath
putrid reminiscence of better days

fear of death climbs the laddered spine
icy rungs of inevitable haste
silent strokes of reality's brush

lost in a sea of winter's humanity
gripped in cold and unwoven warmth
forgotten by all forgiven by none

lain to rest in memory's dreams
to die or not in unknown haste
only tomorrow knows my fate

© 2008 BY W GARY FORRESTER

08

it's a new year

i died a little more

raised a glass in toast

swore to make it right

shamed the attempt

scorned the truth

scared myself

shunned it all

slid deeper

into

the

a

b

y

s

s

© 2008 BY W GARY FORRESTER