Days spent watching and
listening to the news.
Anxiety creeps in with
each headline with
each story and tragedy.
Step after step toward the cliff
little time remains to salvage
fragents of humanity
the fractured souls becoming all of us.
~
I want to express the extreme
sadness that consumes my being
and the futile tears that only
I can see and feel.
Fists clenched the anger
disconnects reason from thought.
What goes through another’s mind?
What is left in their eyes?
~
I stand on the ridge line
both sides swept into fog.
The path ahead lined with
extended arms and hands
of those who passed before
those who gave this life.
There is only one way.
