blame game

i am inclined to blame another

for my lack of skill and resolve

to complete the task entrusted

or undertaking i volunteered

even in my blame i am prone

to pass that buck to Adam

and his spouse, or that gene

i inadvertently inherited

instead of abandoning the blame

game i continue my play

that relay race i chose to name

as human nature frail and faulty

© henry victor               04.12.2011

shit

birth is a bloody shit

when the one who needs to give

birth, cannot proudly announce

that “fact” or the name of the culprit

refusing now to own it

birth is a bloody shit

when your mother has not knitted

your first coat

in her preoccupation to find

a convenient vat to dump her womb’s hurt

birth is a bloody shit

when your damned father hides

his tail for the fear of a child’s snivel

to let someone else walk forward

to hide a new nakedness

birth is a bloody shit

when you hopelessly

for the rest of your existence

struggle to envision your life’s route

when courage had ruled

© henry victor     03.11.2003