stoning and snowball throwing

i fled in fear from fellows

who felt might is right

and lost no time

implementing what they considered

exact and precisely accurate

hunting down

and stoning prophets

following their precursors

hesitating not

opposed and maligned Amos

Hosea, Jeremiah, and John the Baptist

now i sit, silently

with more hurt

and no further energy to sprint

among masses with language of right

tinged with democracy

spending moment after moment

networking with similar color

class, creed, similar speech

and a malevolent ‘hi’

with a filthy smile

while dodging liberties

of alternate voices and vision

these enemies

of modern day prophets

playfully fling snowballs

on heralds of peace

more painful

than the earlier stoning

henry victor     18.08.2002

to school with beavers

 

i enrolled myself at the beaver school

to learn the art of gnawing the tree

grown massive sucking, and sucking

all minerals leaving none to the fragile

shrubs, or the creeping vines around!

those trees have grown gigantic

as the Hawaiian banyan alienating the minute

pushing the little and making them marginal

subverting the small and the humane

making the vital needs of the needy

subordinate to the gluttonous institution!

in that school i did quickly learn

Moses, Amos, John, and even Jesus

had walked those portals training humans

to gnaw, like beavers, the trees, institutions

serving not an authentic growth of the small!

henry victor      10.05.2007