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He's My Fear

from Whispers of Arias (II) by Stephen Mead

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Eva Braun reflects of her time with Hitler, on that whole dark chapter in history and finds herself guilty too.

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He’s My Fear

Fuhrer,
Husband, Lover Man
About the marrow,
These towns that my limbs make...
There’s such storehouses, homes
Such depots and parks for which
I am the reservoir, street-set, in
The field his face is my sky of
Down amid the ducts,
The gun or the cyanide,
Last bunker exits...

Ashes, ashes, it is all planned,
Is larger than the gassed
Or those flares of ack ack
When my heart was surely
Its own alarm.

Love is despair, sister,
And he, the mad champion,
The conqueror, pure and trapping
As math, with his rhetoric charms.

I fell as the whole nation did,
Greedy to succeed...
His accomplishments, his failure,
Both my terror, and how, half-glutton,
Half-deer, I took part in the woods,
Blood black, the bloody slaughtering woods.

Better to end with him
And a coward’s courage
Than face the world’s rubble of our dreams
About our necks. Better, my fear swore,
But I see he’s just a man here
And that the real god’s this capsule
I swallow, unafraid now,
Yours always, Eva
Braun, I write, sister

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from Whispers of Arias (II), released December 24, 2012

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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