Don't Think

I look at the red where life

spills into death.

I feel the sky spill on my closed eyes

nourishing dirt into life.

to live, to die, to feed...

and leaving; live again.

Oh death, your darkness

swallows the light.

I don't have to be blinded

I don't have to be whole

cuz when I feel,

I transcend this robot of meat

and am reminded where I came from.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I like this poem. I read a story called "Just meat" by Jack London. This poem reminded me of the story. I agree with the poem. Sometimes I feel like a piece of meat. No weakness in the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Cassie]

The last stanza is deep, good one Mark, as usual I enjoyed reading

[Mark]

Thank you Cassie :)

[s y e]

Your last line just about blew me off my seat! Woah dude, where did this come from!?

[Mark]

I just was thinking about being a body. A friend who is manic/depressive told me she believes her swings of emotion to be chemical. But I think it goes beyond the phsyical, that our emotions tie us to that realm beyond where we are just forms of energy.

[Baby Ricochet]

"I transcend this robot of meat" I might have to plagiarize that one.

[Mark]

It's all yours buddy :)

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A great piece that slams the door and catches in the throat, well done! x

[Mark]

Thanks much Thomas!

[Frieda P]

Holy cats...where did this one come from Mark? Killer last line...

[Mark]

Jack White.

[TL Boehm]

I transcend this robot of meat and am reminded where I came from. WOW.

[Mark]

Thanks TL :)

[icelandicblue]

I don't have to be blinded
I don't have to be whole
cuz when I feel,
I transcend this robot of meat
and am reminded where I came from.

We all need to remember everywhere we came from and they aren't all geographic. Hard hitting piece Mark.

[Mark]

I believe we exist beyond our bodies. For some odd reason, we choose to blind ourselves and become physical beings for awhile. To learn? To experience? Some sort of hellish vacation? I think we find answers to that when we die.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Now Wichita is getting to you Mark. Must be something them folk puts in that there water. This is a seemingly stark rant against the shallowness of man caught up in the fears of living in this consumer age but it has more depth to it. Loved 'robots of meat' ! This is one of your best.

[Mark]

I think we are more than our physical selves. Maybe Wichita just brought it out with it's simple American persona. :) Thanks John.