Refugee

-Refugee-
by Keaton Foster


Lost
No home
Just skin
Covered bones
Where to go
Where I’ve been
Another time
Unconcerned friends
This madness
This poetic nonsense
Is not about me
None ever written
Only those lived
This verse
Is about you
There
For once
Real is the truth
For once
Everything absolute
There are no lies
Not one to be had
There are only facts
Splayed wide open
Slaved to the concept
Enslaved by the masses
Looking for a home
Each vacancy sign
Flashes none
Aimlessly walking about
Pointing at others
Screaming salvation
Oh thy God please
Down upon your knees
Praying to the master
Damming him with words
Kept under your tongue
He knows point blank
He understands your ways
Much more than you think
Justified
He won’t relent
Homeless
While living in his abode
A shell
Less a spine
Down upon yourself
Someday you will fall
What a mess
What an accident you are
How could I know
What could it be
What makes me better
Or the occasional
Appearance of
Not any damn thing
Not any that I’ll admit
Or beat you over the head with
Read just one line
Find the missing time
And you’ll understand
The precipice of my plan
Come here to the edge
And I'll shove you over
And watch as you fall
Down into forever’s abyss
Down into the swirling bliss
I’ll continue to speak
Upon your behalf
I won’t let the lack of you
Drive me from any path
Refugee
There are plenty
So damn many
Lost
No home
Just skin
Covered bones
No one cares for you
No one except for me
Do you now see
There lies the reason
I have come to be a slave
To every word and page
I won’t ever give up
Even if you somehow do
I won’t make excuses
Even if that is
All that you understand
Don’t be mad
I feel your pain
Your lack of a home
Your lack of a place
To be remotely safe
I was once there
In that same place
In that same twisted shape
That you now find truth
Refugee
An expatriate
The one lost to the world
The one lost to themselves
Find your way closer
And I’ll help you
Find your way further
To a place that requires
No roof over your head…



Refugee
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.