Across The Bow – Matthew D. Eayre

A Global Divergent Literary Collective


Far from my mind is the thought

of what I may possess

or what others have not



A place between understanding,

perhaps

education is not the measure

of a man’s knowledge

and experience is only one of many



I cannot find the sound of reverence

echoing down hallowed halls;

as though none had been before

today sounded the first call



Close to my hands

I keep a record of my worth,

in the breadth of time

only a penny,

or a half



For my version of verse

or lines of ordered rhyme

my price to pay is most dear;

what value placed by history

is never mine to proclaim

nor fear



In certainty I match sounds

with color, emotion and sight

a garden grown from flesh and bone

through darkness, death and plight

misery and ecstasy

joined in militant march;

to fight a battle not my own
and take a…


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