Accounts Pending/Payment Due

Accounts are pending-Payments due,
I thought we’d come to this.

Cars and coolers keeping sane a people on the edge.
Curve expressive metal thrust!
A howling blur of light beamed cutting asphalt ribbons in
Darkness to stretch out night to morn.

We’re burning way too much


Accounts are pending-Burning pride,
Oh Brothers! We of this disenchanted fairyland are tired!

Why can’t we see that how we speed the hours through
Our days is killing us?
We run from that uncertain knowledge of who we are
And quit the balance that heals our earthen home.

LOOK AROUND AND SMELL THE FEAR!

The burning is in our hearts

Accounts are pending-Interest’s long accrued.
Bulging from principle long neglected.

The water is poisoning our children’s children’s child
And STILL we drink the cup!

Effluent rivers stink and run their courses long, warmed well
Beyond the healing stretch of nature’s knowing care.

The burning begins to be beyond repair

Accounts are pending-Debt called in.
Come see the last retreat.
This dance macabre comes to lead us to the killing floor.
Paid is the piper. Called we the tune.
Our feet tap a tattoo upon sun-dried skins until the rhythms come undone.

Melted mountains flood the sea as circles of death boil up from the
Tropics and drown our very hopes.
We hide in day-worn cares and die knowing nothing of our lives.

WE ARE THE BURNING!


Stuart Andrew Marshall Tanner