Blood flecks on a cream canvas
Medals or wounds?
Does he not see the peripheral tears?
Of a mother running after the foe

Cause and causuality, of a loose tooth
Draw or not … money is always a leveller
Girlfriend acting to a scene once seen
Does he not see the future?

Friends a word of previous times
Acquaintances now hold the promises
Want or wanted?
Does he not see the futility?

Too many carers for he who cares not
Does he not see their care?
They hold and mend and suffer
He promises changes and promulgates fear

Washing done a clean canvass
He carries to the corner of hope
Taking our moments away in pocket
Does he not see us?