Monday, August 23, 2021

"Those Who Stand For Nothing."

"Those Who Stand For Nothing."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD


I

 Funny how you say those lies

With a straight face all the time

And I am mortified by the number of teeth

Who threaten to bite into my flesh


II

Buried in the fancy words

Are threats and other unimaginable things

Sprouting like flowers of death

the promise that will come in the end


III

And I stand there listening 

To every little thing you say

Just another one of the many bystanders

Of these our dying days.


Optum , Quezon City. August 23,2021. 11:04pm Poem 22 of 31. 



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