Wednesday, 21 October 2020

bury us by the toll gate


bury us today

by the toll gate

or wherever we fell

to the bullets fired into our backs.

don’t leave our entrails

splattered on the tarmac.


bury us today

below the pavement

where we can continue

to sing our songs of hope

and feel the vibration

of a thousand tyres

reminding us you are still there.


bury us today

by the toll gates

beside where the tellers sit

so we can touch

each note and each receipt

and transmit to you

the reason for our death.


bury us today

by the toll gates

where you pass everyday

we too will pay

our ghostly tolls

to the hands that murdered us

and hear the cries that mourned us.

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