"Folks, This is a Private Park and it's Past Dark"
By Chris Madsen
I was thinking of burning down the house.
Thought better of it with you beside me.
We should burn down our walls instead.
If you take me in we’ll burn as one.
With our Great Lake epicenter,
Love, we could move every mountain.
If you give me those blue eyes.
A kiss and please Love!…those blue eyes.
We’re thinking we should raise the dead.
So what do you say girl?
Tonight we can dance on their graves.
We can free the world from its chains.
I think I’ll turn the world upside down.
On second thought, I kind of like that.
It’s a mess but there’s you and me.
We might like a new perspective.
Chris Madsen is a former Scout Sniper and US Army Veteran. Read more of his writing here.
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