manifestations on the world Batel (useless/lost/gone to waste)

Batel 
is the way you define the lack of use, we say batel
as in discarded, as in empty and cast aside on the road
like an old flute that can no longer hum melodies

Batel 
is the way they tell you age shows in your bones
on the skin marks creasing over your eyes
like age is more than the strikes the sun makes on your face

Batel
they hit him with egg and shoes
like all men do to those who commit treason
like those who are batel by virtue of uselessness to the nation

Batel
the way his hand turned around her neck
like a rope on desire
as in throbbing, as in harsh- the marks left behind

Batel
from Batal, a hero
that who makes of himself a story, after uselessness

Batel
is the way you define the lack of use
as in a self carried like the stars across the seas
as in a redefinition of the ways a gate closes on its secrets
like an old flute that can no longer hum melodies
batel,down-right useless, this power in the words.