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Empty Lot


Empty lot sitting for years

Used to have a house

Full of broken people.

Now it’s jubilee!

Earth has reclaimed it

Swallowed up concrete

With thorns and leaves and grass.

No policy or strategy

Could do a better job,

To restore a bit of peace

To a hurting part of town.

– Vagabond Prophet

Borders

Let’s make some changes

Can we get rid of borders

Guns and money?

I feel panic slip in

The fissures between thoughts.

Numbers on a spreadsheet,

My exactly lacking worth.

That’s what I fear

Not bears or cancer.

Numbers only tell me

How much I can’t give

To the hungry and alone.

So take down borders

Let the people come

I’ll feed them all

With infinite wealth.

Ignorance might not be bliss

But it just may fill a mouth.

– Vagabond Prophet

Jigsaw

How can I be happy

With the world at large?

I know better,

I’ve seen the box

This puzzle came with,

Have you?

Pieces scattered everywhere,

People mistaking blue backing

For sky.

Newspapers for clouds,

Writing on the wall

For anything but

Writing on the wall.

– Vagabond Prophet

Rain or Shine

When I was just a lad

I used to sleep outside.

I’d shut the door on my bedroom

Walk out to the backyard.

Sleep there all night long,

All year long,

After dad left

It was the only way I knew

To be closer

To that different better father.

Rain or shine

You still called me “mine.”

– Vagabond Prophet