- Two There, to Where
- run wild the children —
- others walk (on bored) while we talk (without cords)
- too much on that,
- lay bare the morals, basing the best face, (sacrificing, poorly),
- portraying the ways of the should’s, could’s, and would’s . . .
- “For the Young, always” — a phrase wrung dry,
- rings rung to the false Hearing-Impaired
- who would care but can’t afford to leave their
- shelters to recollect, call collections colonies,
- denounce echoes while pronouncing reflections to be married in mud
- to the same misgiven sins, synonyms.
- Collective responsibility for collateral damage —
- With what image in time is this rhymed?
- For the Greater Good, switch attention
- from the time preceding that rolled seconds and folded upon itself
- until it was but a point out of time
- to the time surrounding right after the moment it unfolded and exploded
- and the focus, for us, went to the Lesser Evil.
- “In the name of this Hater, this Hoodlum,
- some unknown few threw a few stones at our
- superior (well paid for) weapons of defense.
- Therefore, all of the familiar you’s are, by Law,
- no longer allowed to work up at your (at our) near minimum wage jobs.”
- This is the lesson you live for. Retell. Retaliation.
- Didn’t get it? You’re blind —
- Trust me. Don’t look behind;
- those mirrors are simply some careless child’s misplaced toys, misused
- for the purpose of admiring herself with her plastic dolls and all; you know,
- silly make-believe, mismatch, size-up game society is sure to make her grow out of.
- But your mature-future is here; and from any time since,
- just pretend that at your core (in your guts) you understand the standards.
- Convey your sympathy this way:
- Lay your loyalties over there, by and among the shards.
by Harambee Grey-Sun
(Mr. Harambee Grey-Sun is a poet who resides in Northern Virginia.)
