The watcher <br /> <br />He watches all the comings and goings in the park <br /> <br />Always standing always leering <br /> <br />No one ever speaks to him <br /> <br />He is silient as stone <br /> <br />He watches for weeks and years <br /> <br />A marble heart and a marble soul <br /> <br />No tears form on his cheeks he captures only one expression <br /> <br />He watches with eyes that never move or close <br /> <br />Birds are his friends they perch on his shoulders <br /> <br />But they shit on him <br /> <br />The local youths sprayed him with graffiti the other day <br /> <br />and gave him a traffic cone for a hat <br /> <br />if only statues could speak <br /> <br />they would make the best observers of mankind.<br /><br />Daniel Hooks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-watcher-22/
