The lights are on
Steven Bruce is the author of Thrown Up and co-author of Dark Matter 8. His work has featured in Picaroon Poetry, Building Bridges, No Tribal Dance, Forword, Lonesome October Lit, and the Black Light Engine Room Literary Magazine. Some of his poems have been translated into Polish. In 2019, he graduated from Teesside University with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing.
The Drum
By: Steven Bruce
Hope dried up,
along with the eyes
of my dead mother,
and the years chiseled me a cynic.
Yet, there are nights like this,
where the drum still pounds
and my blue soul rises.
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