A father on life support holds on
When the doctors said he couldn’t,
For his youngest daughter
To fly across the world
So he can see her before he passes.
So it goes.

Her car gets hit as she brakes
On a snowy, wet day
A girl with her whole life waiting
Who gently starts to decay.
They never find who fled the scene.
So it goes.

A child born to a chorus of
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
On the twelfth day
Of the twelfth month
Of the twelfth year
So it goes.

Two lonely men
And a world full of sorrow
One stands proud and believing
As the other falls, for a friendship
Set to end only in death.
So it goes.

Called names from the start, a young girl
Later, to others, beautiful
To herself, unacceptable
Spirals downwards into
Depression, anxiety, suicide.
So it goes.

An elder brother
Slams a tennis racket into
His young sister’s nose
And says that she tripped on the cement
It bleeds a river.
So it goes.

A slowly failing planet
Blue, green, and white
Enveloped in the silence of space
And the distance of cold stars
So it goes.