Beating in Blood
By N.A. Patin, C&P 2013
We all begin as blood
cloaked in wombs black
opposite of murder
is where hope lives
desiccating fear
replicating love
We all just want to be loved and love
to feel heart beating in blood
drowning out fear
all colors run together and end black
universe’s fabric stitched with all lives
stars burn with sudden murder
Dark flesh destined for murder
as skin aches for love
desperate to find where hope lives
suffocating in iron of our own blood
running molten black
rusted by indifference and fear
Who am I to fear
the inevitability of murder?
best square up hands black
fill them with dangerous love
knuckles shining with darkest blood
where horrific truth lives
A chain of broken lives
pieced together with fear
cracks filled by blood
mosaic of masterful murder
killed all our love
left us nothing but black
Beat our names, songs, prayers into pulpy black
raped humanity from our lives
told us we could never have love
fed us scraps and fear
accused us of our own murder
sipped like wine our blood
We murder fear in our blood as our love lives black.
