Come Down – You Stars!

Stars, come down!

Visit the earth

Who would want the silver of your dreams

When sleep struggles in dirt?

Stars, come down!

While the night of disaster

Carries your sparkle

Piercing a poor man's hazy eyes

Come down, you stars!

And confront reality

Even you, fighter planet Mars

Would drop your sword

In the face of gnawing hunger

That dances wild

To the smells of waste

Envying stray dogs and pigs

Relishing its taste ...

Humans rot like discarded meat

Collecting flies

Their touch - a faint, waning reminder of life

That lingers

In sunken cheeks

That has chewed up

Every smile long forgotten