Another Dozen Mouths

from War Songs for Peace Keepers by James Avery Fuchs

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How many genocides will we let slip by
without donning our armor
and remembering how to fight?
We live the flicker of a moment,
fading to bullets
and fists
and suicide.

I'm not any stronger than you,
but you're gone.
Took a bullet to the skull
from your own hands.
You always swore you'd craft your own end
even if it was the only thing
you could control.

I guess you made that happen
the way you wanted it to.
Still, I'd rather live in this war zone
buried alive with you,
than watch your final goodbye
from the rear-view.
Coffins bring no glory.

It's just another dead end,
but living's no guarantee of more.
A fist waits outside
every bathroom stall door,
and sometimes I wonder
why I stand and fight.
Then I remember.

You never said goodbye.
I won't let my body turn to ash
until it breathes its last
fist fight, a moment of glory.
I am a war club swinging your memory.
And when it all fades away,
as everything eventually does,

they'll scatter my ashes chanting war songs
and I'll know I live on.

Change will come
I will live
for a moment when the fight turns.
There's always another battle.
Long after I turn to dirt,
I'll be screaming your words.
It'll just be from another dozen mouths.

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from War Songs for Peace Keepers, released March 24, 2016

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James Avery Fuchs Pennsylvania

James Avery Fuchs is The Gayly Nerd. He is also a poet, public speaker,and author. He works as a resident counselor at a local complex trauma program in Pennsylvania.

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