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Michael E. Waldecki

 Poems by Michael Waldecki:

THE SEEKER & The Devil's Moon

Whorls of white, consuming

brilliance smote the night—

I walk the road

in unencumbered steps

to some Destiny, unseen…

A grain of Truth,

my sustenance to sustain

me from abject fear,

encompassed world.

A mountain hurled into a bloody sea—

dead waters, yet I ride

the Wave.

Before me, the flotsam

of the fallen harbingers of war,

who know

they kill for money’s sake

to drink the draughts of power.

O fools, you die in a twinkling,

besmirched by all who know

you fools

gather fabulous wealth & folly,

your graves as shallow as your words.

Yet, when I spoke,

no one heard,

but the red rain…

All were watching

the Signs in the Sky…

DEMAGOG

Gog & Magog

The frozen, rusted wheels of Justice

have ground to a halt.

The Propaganda Minister preaches Hate

and the monuments rise

from the garbage Empowered

to Rule by deceit & slight-of-hand.

The disarming Leaders;

the People are under the gun:

empty words & weapons.

I grit my teeth as I watch

the parrots on television

reveal the Facts…

I hold a brick in my right hand

and consider my Values

as a face contorts,

a Fairy Tale to believe upon,

it is Given: the Opiate,

as all life goes up in smoke.

His eyes reveal a vacuum

that Truth, alone can fill.

We’re getting sucked-in

to a Nightmare!

I can’t find the knob

to turn him off!

The brick

is a form of commentary

that has found its place…