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• Johnny Democracy June 5, 2009 8:42 am

  

  Requiem

  D-day, the long day,
  the longest day of death,
  large-scale killing
  that turned Normandy’s surf red,

  human slaughter
  called history,
  evolution gone insane,

  no glory, no winners,
  just corpses
  and survivors
  testify to a numbing horror,

  now, later,
  white crosses mark the graveyards
  that remember the battle
  of a generation ago,

  in a war that still rages
  in the hearts of men,

  when, oh when
  can forgiveness be brought to the altar,
  and all this blood be worth the price
  for which it was spent.

• Johnny Democracy June 4, 2009 8:16 am

  

  Out of Sugar

  Combat mode is always waiting
  in the nervous system,
  on call
  at the molecular level,

  to react to triggers of fear
  and anger
  of a reprisally-geared temper,

  firing synaptic shots of adrenalin
  center-of-mass
  at an illusioned enemy,

  hypertension is a close companion
  on guard in an endangered psyche
  wading in confusion,

  between breaths
  of my embattled memory,
  I ponder my destiny
  still wandering the valley of death,

  welcome to my mind, my dear,
  would you like some PTSD
  with your tea,

  I seem to be all out of sugar,
  today.

• Johnny Democracy June 3, 2009 8:25 am

  

  In Memoriam

  Can you hide the pain in the sepulcher of your soul,
  deny it exists with empty platitudes
  that console your complacency
  to the encompassing plague
  that overwhelms your heart?

  Try to censor the spirit
  and it simply seeks the path of least resistance,
  manifesting love
  for your conscience to see,
  so subtly,
  the lesson and the teacher are one.

  Define the crucifixion,
  but do not dwell on it.
  Peace is the message of life
  that must be learned and lived
  within all of us,
  for the sake of any of us.