9/4/2016 0 Comments Two Poems by Benjamin BlakeAlways Answer The Phone If It Rings Locked behind sterile walls How does that new smile fit? Settle down for brummagem mediocrity And lose part of that gilded light A chance to die For what lies preeminent But enlightenment Doesn’t come cheap Everything deserves its explanation But one has to earn the profound There will be a reckoning Photographs of Photographs Have you read the news today? We wander about aimlessly like lost children In the shade of the city street And each time we kneel in cubicles (our daily confession booth) We’re losing touch with reality and wasting youth behind a computer screen We’ve grown into these suits, and we’re growing bigger in these chairs Looking forward to what the evening brings To sit anesthetized in front of your color television And slowly slip deep into a dreamless sleep Why do we try so hard to make a connection? These days it seems no one speaks with any conviction Why do we try so hard to make a connection? When every living creature dies alone Any by the way, Why do we take our fathers harsh word to heart? He keeps walking in circles, in circles, in circles And do you think he followed his dreams? Or just gave in and settled for a nice house with a dog and a yard? The final curtains closing in And Death’s drifting closer in his sleep And with his last breath, sighed upon white hospital sheets He may only ask that you don’t do the same There’s a siren in the night But it’s not coming for you And a long lost love letter, Written by a familiar hand But you can’t seem to make the connection What will you do when you find out that the lifeboat that you cling so tightly to Turns out to really be an anchor? What will you do when you realize your life is already lost? Bio: Benjamin Blake was born in the July of 1985, and grew up in the small town of Eltham, New Zealand. He is the author of the poetry and prose collections, A Prayer for Late October, Southpaw Nights, and Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead. www.benjaminblake.com www.twitter.com/benjaminblake www.facebook.com/wordsbybenjaminblake
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