Dead Poetry - Dead Confederate

On this dead poets' day

We close our eyes as we pray

For all the hearts beyond absolve

Their marrow dry, their gold facade

A loss for words right from the start

For all the minds beyond our sway

In the dead poets' dark

They have torn out the heart of hearts

And filled the cavity with a cage

A swarm of lost, they set ablaze

The flourished fruit they will abate

A puerile plague that calls alarm

Ink fills the page

Words are erased

And lost in doubt, we carry out

Ink covers sheets

Stone memories

That fade away and lost their place

On this dead poets' day

Corrosion pens a yellow page

And bleeds out rust to song

A choir loud that belt and balk

And simple truth transposed to waltz

Is nothing more then yesterday

I’ll leave this life

If you’ll bury me;

Please leave your heart

In my grave for thieves;

Fight or flight

I’ll be relieved;

This place is

No place to be