Wander on earthly inhabitant, 

Until all foreign plains turn familiar 

And all mud is trodden 

Until courage dies and bravery lies 

This world you walk on teaches you a thing or too 

You’re a fool, don’t you forget it 

This bravery you grasp is earned for a time 

As mud and plains care not what you do 

The hills know not of your hesitation 

This path you take laments not these oppressive apprehensions 

The sky stares down like a happy halfwit 

Forward, where else is there to go after all 

Tireless Warrior 

Fortuitous heart 

wander on 

A child of dirt and grass 

Essence rooted in rootlessness 

Neanderthal flesh, hot and fast 

Your gaze an excavation 

Bush and Tree are your friends, don’t you see 

What direction is backwards 

Maybe you knew once, at a time 

Such an impenetrable origin you have 

You know not from where you came 

Beware the buried giant 

Transient being, nowhere everywhere 

South of the border, east of the sun 

Sticks and stones 

Cloth and bone 

wander on 

Body a beating drum, deep and resonant 

Your days are numbered 

Exotic kisses, death wishes 

A cascading anomaly along the black axis of time 

Who is this dead man walking? 

What is this vision of tomorrow you’re stalking? 

Hollow being - what alien land will house the dust of your demise 

A divine masochism coursing through you 

Soaring past the sun, ignited 

A tremendous blaze 

unyielding and undying 

Unbowed, forever flying 

Wherever you’re going, wander on 

Neanderthal

Poetry
Harry Carter
January 28, 2022