G. Emil Reutter- A Poem

I travel the road

dark battered

broken

lights dim, tarnished moon

crows cackle

daffodils

bloom mist

falls, road

wet

jars unopened

fruit

pealed rots

under trees empty canopy

one bud

blooms

I travel the road

look, listen

walk as sun rises

moons

view falls

on the corner of 13^th and Chestnut

a vet stands on titanium

cup empty

grateful nation doesn’t cry

hope

fades as invisible unemployment

lines fill cyber space

university graduates hold

empty diplomas

eighty one homicides in my city

in eighty four days

and no one protests

as the blood soaked sun sets

I travel this road

under setting sun as

dim moon rises

daffodils limp fall

to ground

fruit rots

crows cackle

empty cup

on ground

shots fired

hope dissipates

promise unfulfilled

g emil reutter lives and writes in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia. Eight collections of his poetry and prose have been published. In 2007 he founded The Fox Chase and Fox Chase Reading Series. You can find him at www.gemilreutter-author.com