Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Will we never hear midnight sound
Always
We shall go further and never get anywhere
Our story is noble and tragic
As the face of a tyrant not fun not for everyone
I have had the courage to look back
At the dead bodies of my days
Men of the future remember me
I lived in the days when there stopped being kings
And our past loves.
Do I really have to remember all that again
Under the Mirabeau Bridge there flows the Seine Must I recall Our loves recall how then After each sorrow joy came back again
My mouth will have ardors of Gehenna
My mouth will be a hell for you of sweetness and seduction
The peoples of the earth rushed to find out who they were
The dead shivered with fear in their dark dwellings
Finally I have a right to greet strangers
Who pass and gather a little ways off