Rick Leddy

Monkey on a Dog

I'm a Monkey on a Dog

He said to me

Just Hanging on 

But I don't know why

Waiting for rewards 

I know won't come 

Heaven's in a Glass

And Hell is when it's gone

I'm a Monkey on a Dog

Just Riding the Beast 

Too Afraid To Fall

Because I might Fly 

Going Round in Circles 

Dressed With Nowhere to Go

Life's a rattle in my chest

That chills me to the bone

I'm a Monkey on a Dog

It's a one way ride

Grab hold of the fur

And watch for the teeth

Daylight Moon

Day time full moon tied up

in thin black wires

Stringed silhouettes piercing homes

Powering fantasies and killing time

Rows of poles reaching to heaven

False idols jabbing the horizon

Challenging the beauty of sublime reflection

The soft white satellite laughing at the hubris of it all

As it trails across the sky

The Silence

The quiet is an invader

Assaulting us

Jackbooting over intimacy

Claiming victory over love

When did the world go silent?

She did not say to him

The angels of our better intentions falling from grace

The evening a pantomime 

of what we once had

Black nights long as winter sets in

Your lips move 

But your prayers go unheard

Heaven became purgatory

Then nothing at all

I remember when laughter was song

Before the years robbed us of sound

When noise filled our lives

The cacophony overwhelming at times

But at least it was something

Not this

Fallen words shattered at our feet

Until all that is left

Are rooms filled with us

Illiterate mind readers

Mute to each other