Tag: new writers

  • Tri Cyclic

    I did nothing
    but watch
    helpless
    as the young
    of my generation,
    the gifted
    and beautiful,
    trapped themselves
    in the same 
    dead ends 
    we hated the old
    for wasting their
    lives on.
    
    I’m sorry. 
    
  • Welcoming

    From birth
    your time, 
    they say,
    will come.
    
    Your family 
    excited,
    the papers,
    you sign.
    Guns flare. 
    
    The uncles, 
    the grandads,
    the fathers - 
    those left - 
    they say, 
    your time 
    will come.
    
    You sign,
    they cheer,
    you fight,
    they boo.
    Your war 
    will come.