Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

in extremis

please god
or anyone who is out there
give us a leader

a little corporal will do
someone with a brain
and a vision

Catherine, come back
Frederick please
you were both Great
and you read and loved music
and were intelligent

someone please,
inspire us to fight for freedom
say you care about us
the people
the ones who work day to day
till the fields
wind the engines
hammer the floors
clean the nails

even old Churchill cared about freedom

Roosevelt, Elizabeth, Salah al Dinh

come back
you'll do
all of you
someone worth dying for

you cared about us
the people menschen volk
the ones who rise in the morning
piss
put the fire on
feed the children work save sleep

give us someone who cares if we live or die
not a man like this

please God
I am on my knees now
before I go for Christ' sake
give my children and their children
hope