Two Poems by Dana Trick

 

Aries

In this world of love and compassion,

Why is there so much hate and destruction

Running amok in and over everything?

 

Leaders preaching

Their version of peace and justice

As an excuse for war—

Ain’t that purest hypocrisy?

 

Ah, I bet you can sense it—

The chaotic haze of right and wrong

Contaminating everything sacred,

Chocking the humanity for empty victories,

Killing generations instead of loving them.

 

When you wish for peace that should be here forevermore,

Even you must know that even that desire is asking for a war.

 

I eagerly wait for

The next disagreement,

The next fight,

The next battle,

The next massacre,

The next genocide,

The next raid,

The next rebellion,

The next invasion,

The next expansion,

The next war

To happen.

 

Battlefield

Dear great battlefields of old and new, of memorialized and unmarked,

You’ve recited the glories of heroism and humanity

To each generation of the modern world,

At the cost of overlooking the nightmares of blood and screams

That once was a normal, unremarkable field that only knew mundane peace.

Born a first-generation Mexican-Canadian-American autistic with ADHD, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly foolish to wear black any day but she does it anyway. Besides writing, she spends/wastes her day by either reading weird books and comics; researching the history of certain topics because she is an historian with a degree to prove it; drawing crappy art and comics strips; and/or watching an unhealthy number of cartoons, anime, YouTube videos.  Her work has been published in the Art of Autism, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Quiver Review, and The Ugly Writers. She wishes the reader a nice day.