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She Walks In Beauty

from Sky Drum by Oliver Loveday

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She walks in thunder amongst the cloaks of clouds
Raindrops reveal the seeds she brings
She smiles across the sky in radiant colors
She sends messengers rolling through the valleys
The clouds reflect the light of her music
She dances with the wind

The land is hard to touch
People are pitted one against the other
No one loves for the sake of honoring the heart
It is hard to dream in this land
New skyscrapers are ruins before they are built
The children's bodies are a wasteland of drugs and violence
Athlete's bodies are blown up with steroids
The music is an abrasive mantra of destruction
Video reality is an electronic bombardment against the screen
Against the senses

She smiles in radiant colors
She walks across the land in harmony with the elements
Flowers rise up to greet her
Bees come out to eat her nectar
Her music sings the children to sleep into dreams of living

The guns are aimed at the children
Guns bought with tax money paid to keep the land free
Guns filled with electronic bullets to imprison the mind
Guns filled with electronic sounds of fragmented addictions
Guns filled with chemicals that fill the spirit with madness
The guns come in many forms to destroy the children
The guns are aimed at us
We make the guns

She walks with the thunder
It drowns out the sound of guns
She lifts up the flowers to drink of the rain
Lightning crackles to block out the electronic blast
Of radio signal
She engulfs the wounded spirit of the children and leads them
To the land of fertile dreams
She kisses their tears with gentle rain

The wasteland ponders the thunder
Flowers grow in the dust made fertile with rain
The wind plays a sweet song against the edge of naked steel
The children sing while playing in the thistles
The guns, needles, and televisions wilt into the rust of night
Thunder
The lightning flashes red beyond the buildings of madness

She walks in beauty.
HO!

Oliver Loveday © July 17, 1992, 2:50pm EDT

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from Sky Drum, released October 10, 2023
Oliver Loveday: poet

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