resurrection blues


you in this room with
your blue eyes like hunger

with sunlight through
the curtains
and the smell of flowers

of gasoline

and one of us drunk and
one of us stoned
and the way you taste when
you come

the screams of angels caught
in barbed wire
and then the silence

this waiting for christ
to arrive
but he never does

all of the time spent
calling out his name


© John Sweet 2004