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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 10. Tear Tracks
Tear Tracks
Tears fall
far more slowly
than bullets ever fly;
please explain, for I am sorely
confused;
why must
we be required to watch this race
between wild eyed anger
and innocent
children?
Pandemic
What madness
is there in modern man
that drives him to seek abundant death?
What vaccine, what immunization do we need
to stop this virulent pestilence?
Our tears and our rage
are not enough.
Accursed
In bleakest contemplation do I stare
and wonder at the waste of precious dreams,
so many Hades' ears are drowned in screams,
and wonders at the souls arriving there.
We seem to pass our moments unaware
of hatred drawing neighbors to its schemes,
to instigate a massacre, it seems,
or just erase one human standing there.
Melpomene, why did you choose to curse
our rest and peace with blind insanity;
each tragedy unfolded for the worse,
the news a form of harsh profanity.
Might offerings of love perhaps reverse
our brutal slide to inhumanity?
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