What is the protocol
one
might ask.
What is the appropriate
response
everyone
needs to know.
What does one say
when no
words can answer.
Impossible to reason
discern
moderate
There are actions
occurrences that do not
happen here
where life is laughter
and clinking glasses.
Slow paced Alacrity
does not move with
fervor
where bayous ramble deep
and wide and slow.
A loner who is not alone
has powers unspeakable
when turned on others.
Apathy converts with
vigor
furnishing Acrimony and
Fear
like snakes threading
their way into steely hearts.
Emotions overwhelm
dripping Confusion
like Spanish
moss-covered oaks
blackened with aged
lichen.
A new pestilence on the
city
one loner is a loner
still
among people who wade
through waters
deep in culture and
belief and hope.
No loner has power
over the lives of a
people
whose stories are
swamped in Heritage
of exile and
transcendence.
Like Evangeline waiting in
the forest primeval
Austerity sits for time
though abnegation occurs
not.
In
response to the Lafayette shooting on July 23, 2015
3 comments:
That was very well written and quite moving.
That was very well written and quite moving.
Thanks, Erika. So happy you came for a visit!
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