Two Poems by Derrick Harrison Hurd

Monuments Under the Sea
For Andre

Evolution, a heartless game
rendered us humans with hearts and souls
gods played at being men
men played at creating gods
building monuments under the sea
and spinning countless revolutions
of the same cycle in another language
Perfection begs deviation
and thus we grow
and soon will
also go


Pirates
For Kelly

There are blessings that are treated as curses
and curses that bring about blessings
The blessed are simply that
as are the cursed
Gratitude completely evacuates need
and an empty life becomes an impossibility
when the curse and the blessing
are the same

{Poems by Derrick Harrison Hurd}