Sun-starved splitting anguish

Like that of a yelping dog

That’s been hit by a distracted driver

Running headlong into the woods

In a full blown panic

In amazing pain

With no one to call it’s name

It rains down on me

In sheet after sheet of violence

And I stub my toe

On the futile cause

Of trying to envelope you

With only care

And I stub my toe

And scream in protest

For the martyr on the pillar

To end her self-flagellation

Way up high in the center

Of the busy city circle

It is pitiful to watch

And I shake everywhere