End of the World Poetry

Brother

Where are you my brother I loved

Where are your beautiful feathers I wore

Where are you my dazzling brother

Where was your wisdom and where is your zest

Where are you my brother and where are you headed

Your life would go up and hatch into the sky

Brother your life as a flame from a lion’s heart

Where are you brother, where is my life

Where are you brother, where’d you take the dream, my innocence

In my manhood, my man, a lion roar, where did you take me

With your disappearing years, with the mystery

Come back to me brother, love me as I loved thee

With the hope my love would save you love me back

So my love would be innocent once again

Brother love me

Brother come back

Life, oh…

Wish of life, end of life

The impossible end.

I hear my children’s cry and I remember yours

Cry of death, cry of weakness to life

How can you possibly die at age eight

Your life has been feathers which helped me to fly

I hear my children cry, the crying of life

And I ain't thrilled to be hearing them shout

Your shout echoing in Jerusalem’s skies

This Jerusalem which holiness didn’t save