Pluto's Children

an epic, rhyming metaphysical poem with a mythological twist

 

Jewels whisper brittle truths

to glitter-gaping aging youths

in clitter-clatter little booths

without a leg to stand on

More tools for a New-Age rage

when all the demons come uncaged

Who'll hold the next one when it's staged

for us to lend a hand on?

 

Enough of this sob-story bluff,

just pull your trousers by the cuff

and we'll go swimming in the buff

in the foaming sunny sea

We'll laugh with heart and play the part

we'll squeeze the juice out from the tart

we'll giggle at the angels' farts

and ask the wolves to tea

 

We'll carry on as if it matters

play the dormouse and the hatter

trust the former and the latter

and forget about the score

For what more is there left to do?

the gates are gone, there are no clues

it's hard enough to keep our shoes

connected to the floor

 

So tired of this senseless war

still raging from the age before

and no one ever knows the score

or how to tell the winners

Perhaps an answer will be found

a treasure buried undergound

a trove of truths so damn profound

to show the saints and sinners

 

how futile is this scurvy war

and all the hatreds from before

are really only metaphor

for internecine madness

Perhaps a cosmic traffic cop

will show up just in time to stop

us harvesting our poisoned crop

of wreck and grief and sadness

 

but likelier we're on our own

our saviors, children who have grown

up sick of plantings that we've sown

all careless of their future

The children are the ones who dare

though old ones have the choice to care

if life or death will be your share

and do you want to root here

 

Times like this, death seems a gift

oblivion a blessed lift

we give our softer sides short shrift

when stone is all we know

Yet still, our hearts within the stone

cry, "Please don't leave me all alone"

we pray to Mom to take us home

to be her embryo

 

O take us back into your womb

we weary of this stone cold tomb

and even threat of cosmic doom

has lost its fascination

We didn't want this, we were tricked

and into Hell our souls were kicked

we were victimized by wicked

Pluto's machination

 

"Do this, don't do that," he told us

such a bill of goods he sold us

He raped, and then he robbed and rolled us,

begging him for more

He called us children, him our Father,

forbade us to love any other

used our flesh and sins as fodder

herded us to war

 

He plays us, pieces in a game

we never rest, we never change

we die, we're born, it's still the same

he's tireless, and stern

But we have known another way

from his changeless path we've strayed

in eternities of pleasure played

then found ourselves returned

 

Born from pleasure into pain

enduring struggle, stress and strain

and striving to break through again

like leaves into the light

We writhe in dark without reward

we learn to build, we learn to hoard

within our cells our souls are stored

to free ourselves, we fight

 

We struggle with oppression's bindings

our growth so slow, our paths so winding

forever seeking, never finding

weaker every time

Then, just as into death we curl,

surrendering our strength, unfurl

our clench-tight grip upon the world,

a brand new life we find

 

And there we grow, in light and space

blindly blessed by Mother's grace

with kisses for our tender face

she welcomes us alive

Eternity is home to us

just for a time, the stress and fuss

serves as a text to lesson us,

to teach our hearts to thrive

 

We're all in this thing together,

Earth and water, wind and weather

Let Pluto play with bones and feathers

he can't make us blind

to what we've seen with our own eyes

velvet seas and crystal skies

bright light cities, mountains high

and faces that are kind

 

Here is home where we belong

here we can do nothing wrong

We know the chords to all the songs,

and oh, we love to sing them

And all the faces in the crowd

break our hearts, we are so proud

to be members of this loud

and lively mortal kingdom

 

Reviews

[Candy Reign]

Well written and Very good. I enjoyed this