Sacrifice

the only hungers left / are the hungers allowed us / By the light of our sacred street lamps / by whatever maps we are sworn to follow / pleasure will betray us / unless we do what we must do / without / wanting to do it / feel the enemy stone give way in retreat / without pleasure or satisfaction / we look the other way / as our dreams come true / as our bloody hands move over history / writing / we have come / we have done / what we came to do. / Pulling down statues of rock from their high places / we must level the expectation / upon which they stand / waiting for us / to fulfill their image / waiting / for our feet to replace them. / Unless we refuse to sleep / even one night in houses of marble / the sight of our children's false pleasure / will undo us / for our children have grown / in the shadow of what was / the shape of marble / between their eyes and the sun / but we do not wish to stand / like great marble statues / between our childen's eyes / and their sun. / Learning all / we can use / only what is vital / The only sacrifice of worth / is the sacrifice of desire.