Quiet silent
Masked n senseless
Covid marches
On relentless
Matters not
We’re friend or foe
Destroyed are all
Of “Jericho”
Six-fifty thousand
Dead to date
And yet no sign
This will abate
To mask - or not
Is grounds to fight?
When Covid kills
All weak n slight
We’re dying today
At one-a-minute
Desperate for a
Silver bullet
Perhaps we are
But chimpanzees
Just a tad less
Fancy free!
Jul 31, 2020
Jul 31, 2020 at 2:19 PM UTC
i cannot
stay stuck
when time froze
at 7:07
as my world
came crashing
down and
tear-filled icicles
pierced this
pincushion
heart...
Oct 20, 2017
Oct 20, 2017 at 5:24 PM UTC
how much more
will these eyes tear
how much more
will this heart fear
how much more
will this voice quiver
how much more
will these hands shiver
how much more
can one child grieve
much more it is
to find reprieve
Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 11:43 PM UTC
stop the tears
quell the fears
hope capsized
dreams realized
the feuds erased
a son embraced
requiescat in pace
Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 4:30 PM UTC
our battle...over
come, celebrate my dear friends
let’s light a candle
Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 7:51 PM UTC
a score
and two years
of love and
conflict and
rejection and
illness and
acceptance and
love
all over again
reduced to
ashes
.... and memories
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 10:51 PM UTC
cool morning sunshine
a maple leaf is falling
windswept graves lay clean
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 10:19 PM UTC
the porridge is hot
a young man prays...quietly
the porridge is cold
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 3:25 PM UTC
A child is weeping
An urn is filled with ashes
The sea gulls silent
Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 7:53 PM UTC
Another day, another night
Acrid air, acerbic sight
MRI’s, CT scans, RT feeds
Oh please forgive me
22 pills, twice a day
Pulverized, force-fed toxic buffet
Eight “feeds” a day... “vitality”?!
Oh please forgive me
Heart rates spiked, fevers rose
The medical team... yet a new prognose!
“Now she needs to breathe you see!”
Oh please forgive me
Seizures broke, bedsores grew
I didn’t know what to do...
Your silent stares, a deafening plea
Oh please forgive me
Six weeks in - comatose
I held you in my arms...reposed
All I wanted was to flee
Oh please forgive me
And then that fateful day arrived
They said you were now past revive
I sat benumbed…just you and me,
Please forgive, I set you free…
Oct 14, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 at 1:42 AM UTC