There's only one way of life

icons in the fast lane




people said
silence and fill your head
with stories of
the soon to be well read
in histories of
the living dead.


but i told her to
just be brave
and waltz around those
chosen slaves
who think that character is made
from two parts
vengeance
one part close shave.

icons come and icons
go
like snow drifts 
in
valleys below.
and
still i wonder
who they are that leave the world
with brazen scars.

icons
to a war machine?
icons
to a state obscene?
icons
to a better world?
icons
for a flag unfurled?





sjw 06/07/19 inspired at this very moment in time by the loose ends meeting face to face.





from the 'blitzkrieg series' of poems