Sometimes quotes from movies I haven't seen in a decade pop into my head

Toy Soldiers

Green: with envy at those chosen before us
With guilt at those who fall behind
With nausea at the violence of our movements
With hatred at our usage so defined.

Stiff: with courage as we face what lies before us
With valor as we race against the times
With rigor as we're parted from our futures
With fear as we're frozen in our minds.

Armed: with hate for whatever we are facing
With guns for approaching battle lines
With everything that can be found and gathered
With nothing that can't be left behind.

Rigid: with confusion at an ever-changing purpose
With respect for the whims that call us forth
With terror at the giants that surround us
With pride at the valuation of our worth.

Made: of necessity to broaden imagination
Of plastic to handle uncertain tides
Of misfortune and explanations for our children
Of the hope that we'll one day be undefined.

Stored: in boxes, in closets and on shelves
In recesses until brought back to the fore
In fingers and behind eyelids and bright smiles
In trash cans when there's no more need for war.



Egg Salad

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty wished he was tall:
Tall and valiant and brave and tough
Humpty Dumpty had it rough
Because he was short and round and eternally fragile.
He'd never be quick, and he'd never be agile
He'd always be shorter and thicker and wide
He'd always be better off as a main dish or side
But he couldn't accept he was made for a plate
So he wished for a more palatable fate
And he climbed a wall to pretend he was tall
And escape the poachers that he thought he saw.
But then he smelled slaw,
And thinking he'd cracked
He turned, thinking mayo would ooze from his back
He thought he was hurt, that he'd never win
So poor Humpty Dumpty did himself in.
And all the kings horses thought "we have no hands"
So they snorted and stamped and ignored the demands
From the king for Humpty's repair,
For they thought with some relish, if out of the air
He'd make for a quite tasty snack.
The king's men agreed, so they crept round the back
And gathered his innards under the pretense of grief
Then took him home, fried him and paired him with beef
And named him in honor of kings
Thus the royal was born, and a tastier thing
Humpty couldn't have done if he'd tried
So while it's sad that he died
All nursery rhymes end rather badly
(And most are geared around food)
So if you don't want your kids hungering madly
(And you don't want them in a bad mood)
Remember poor, dead Humpty and say
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"
And you'll probably be glad that you did.

I dream of knights and dragons

Candlelight and Torches

Is there a place for perspective 

In a world without points of view

Save for the grasping

At whatever's deemed true 

By most recent consensus.

In worlds made of screens

We live out our dreams

Vicariously through others

And sometimes through you

Oh, Did that room have a view?

Somebody gets injured

And fantasizers get mad

Someone's arrested

And daydreamers perjure themselves

To dream on

And ignore the twelve shades of blue

In this fading twilight of souls.

Another glowing soul goes dark

Only to blink bright thirty seconds later

Revived before it even reached stasis

Reaching again for what truly matters:

Me

For everyone must know how I feel

At every single moment in time

Yet if my soul's in my pocket

Am I even real?

Or is it back-lit because

There's an abyss in my eyes?