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Kevin  & Tom

A nude sun
like your body
rises
to greet the dawn.

I try to cool
lips that
yearn
for the touch
of a strangers heat.

Sensitive
to your glance,
I suggest
assurance in return
a vagueness,
on your face.

We have wounded
hearts in this emotional
playground where
there are no guarantees.

In silent suffocation
some rituals
are to be observed.
The light lances
through the moment
I feel alone.


1.

shop windows cry out
buy me buy me

multicoloured
multisized boxes

tied with ribbons
of many hues

gold and silver
green and yellow
red and blue

all the colours
of the rainbow
bedeck the eggs
hollow and full

creamy chocolate
waiting to go



2.

young Ethiopian boy
walking sketeton
ribs bulging in pain
legs unable to carry
your feeble weight

your head skin tight
around your shiny face
eyes big with the stare
of hunger

eyelids invaded
by flies in a frenzy
of feeding
your energy too low
to brush off their
tenacious attacks

child who will never be old
dying child
who is blameless

will we let you die
while we gorge
on sweet chocolate
Easter 2000
by
tom ffrench
Wounded Hearts
by
Kevin Brady
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