*loolaville _poetry    



X-mas Season 2001

The window pane is foggy
and through the condensation
there are yellow twinkling lights on the trees.
We lie in our warm beds in our split-level
homes painted different shades
of the same color, while poverty waits
shivering for daylight and another chance.
We drop our coins around and make wishes
for a piece of the dream that
is always in the distance. And when
we touch the surface after we let go of it,
the sadness overwhelms the soul.
Still it can not compare to that
of the one who never had the luxury
to dream at all.
Cars drive on in clouds of brown,
the wetlands disappear and only
the minority feel despair.
Little trains move 'round their tracks
clicking and chugging for another
child fixated. We turn our backs
to face away and the Earth
keeps moving unaware that the keepers
dropped their keys and the world
divided rich and poor.
 


   
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