Lonley Bones

A Sestina
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I have rested here, my weary bones
And hope that in years to come, the saints
Will uncover them, like useless refugees
Blinking at their new found hope in the dawn
Ignoring those looks and my jelly-like slime
For now they will be at peace

I lay here yet not quite at peace
I rustle some leaves and haunt the bones
Of other souls like me who too easily shun the slime
That may be the home of saints
We're too easily blinded by gold in the dawn
To single the ones who are human from the refugees

I glanced, nose upturned at the stinking refugees
As they came in their drones, praying for peace
My cold eyes, were heavy and responded not to the dawn
I swear now, I was blind to the chinking of their bones
God cannot breathe hope into saints
Awaiting their fate in the slime

I swept them in their thousands, into a pool of children's slime
Ignoring the pleas of the endless refugees
Praying in tongues, with the patience of saints
I prayed too that day but only for peace
Of their babbling and the end of the creaking of the bones
And my journey home at the crack of dawn

They were silent then on hands and knees-their shadows in the dawn
I served them a bowl, a struggled to touch the slime
They took it with care and smeared the rest on their ailing bones
Under piles of soot and dust the refugees
Seemed away from home but quite at peace
Their halos had arrived from the lands of saints

The radio blasted louder to muffle the sounds of the saints
Or so they had become that day, at the crack of dawn
A wailing of a baby child cut sharp into the peace
A suckle and sheâ??s silent but for how long can slime
Sustain the walls of stomachs of the refugees
Understand, I can't for welcome flesh covers my bones

But alas the bones of the saints
Were lonely too, just as the refugees lined up in the dawn
For just how long can slime sustain the body before one rests in peace?

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A Sestina is a french form. Usually involving 6, 6 lined stanza and one triplet. The last words of each line of the first stanza 123456, these same words will switch places in the following sequences-- 615243, 364125, 532614, 451362, and 246531
In the last triplet words 1&2 are found in the first line, 3&4 in the second and 5& 6 in the last line