The Key to The Cage

<p>Armando Hazaveh presents a collection of poems inspired by art daily life activities nature humor and the hope for peace.</p> <p>Do You See the Roses?</p>Do you see the roses?</br>Inhale their sickly sweet perfumes.</br>Grasp their lush silky petals and their piercing thorns.</br>Do you watch them hour by hour in silence as they wait for an unsuspecting victim to puncture?</br>Tick tock tick.</br>Tick tock tick.</br>Their time is growing scarce.</br>Do you spy the midnight sparrows?</br>Catch their fierce battle cries.</br>Sniff the rotting decay of their aching souls.</br>Do you watch them wither slowly before death reaches out and snatches them in its cold dark fingers?</br>Tick tock</br>Tick.</br>Their time is running out.</br>Do you behold the trees?</br>Evade their colorless leaves?</br>Take in their sacred whispers swept away by the never-ending breeze.</br>Watch them sway at the strike of an axe before tumbling down with a deadly finality.</br>Tick tock.</br>Their time is trickling by.</br>Do you perceive the apples?</br>Taste the deadly poison within.</br>Ignore the rotten portion in a crumpled heap beneath your feet.</br>Do you watch them wither turning black within until their once fresh juicy core has gone dry?</br>Tick.</br>Their time has almost gone.</br>Do you see the humans?</br>Taste the blood lingering in the frosty silence.</br>Hear the rustle of fabric as they turn against each other?</br>Do you watch them drive their companions to death with their cruelties strung up like a banner of pride?</br>Silence.</br>Their time has passed.</p>