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To See Their Faces [poem]

Sean Barney

Updated: Apr 26, 2021

A poem by Sean Barney


To see their faces, know just what it’s like

when shrines are built atop Olympus Mons.

The moment screaming, desperate on the mic,


A certain chord we all must have to strike,

no Deal or Deal, waving alien wands

To see their faces, know just what it’s like:


Hammer of the drum, a head through a spike,

Sampson shattering his eternal bonds.

The moment screaming, desperate on the mic.


Menacing once, then a child on a trike,

Splintering ice on Massachusetts ponds,

to see their faces, know just what it’s like


More frightening than a one-thousand year reich,

as gentle as a palm and all its fronds,

the moment screaming, desperate on the mic.


Wave of mutilation breaking the dike.

Here comes your man, the fourth Charlie Thompson

to see their faces, know just what it’s like:

The moment screaming, desperate on the mic.


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