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A Challenge To The Dark

shot in the eye
Shot in the brain
Shot in the ass
Shot like a flower in the dance

Amazing how death wins hands down
Amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life

Amazing how laughter has been drowned out
Amazing how viciousness is such a constant

I must soon declare my own war on their war
I must hold to my last piece of ground
I must protect the small space I have made that has allowed me life

My life not their death
My death not their death…


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Poem A Challenge To The Dark - Charles Bukowski
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