The Acid Lake
Outside my window
Glistens with
Man’s disgusted perversity

All for Time
Children sit on its shores
Waiting
As toxic fumes
Settle their way.

My mother warns me:
‘Don’t go in the lake!
You’re bound to disappear
Into mankind’s hate!’

Good child I am
I wander its shores
Watching the adults
Swim both to and fro

What lies inside
The Acid Lake?
I wonder alone to myself each and every day

A day there came
Where standing at the shore
I choose not to heed my mother’s words.

It burned of cruelty
And broke forth ice cold.

How was I to know
Of its unspoken scorn?

Long while I spent
Beating against its waves
But Innocence and Purity
Soon gave way.

So now I rest
At it’s lonesome bottom
In a small and much unmarked grave.

sad when a child loses their innocence.....they no not of hate, rascism nor evil, then teaching begins...love the metaphors....

welcome to our little corner of the world