“ https://hellopoetry.com/poems/5281518/prayer-will-be-the-end-of-us
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“We have learnt to mourn without a sound
because grief is now too often found”
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how hard it must have been
for a man
“Who loves life loves poetry”
to compose this hearse of verses
and my mind
is modified and modifies
his eloquence
ever so slightly
and i think with no millisecond’s lapse:
(our) grief is now too often profound
yes we tire with exhaustion from “thoughts and prayers,”
skip over the particulars of the daily newest school shooting,
random shooting on city streets, that murders a baby in his stroller,
or a citizen pushed to death in front of a subway car
and turn the page,
it is not a wearied callousness
we are displaying,
no, it is a grief so river deep,
it is the nth level of profundity
when words become unavailable,
not from overuse
but from complete collapse
from the sharp edges of keen bloodletting
we prefer an unholy silence
to a wailing grieving
we are in a permanent state of
permanent wrack and ruin
coverup
“Profound"
so deeply felt, great intensity,
often a silent sorrow, crackling thoroughout our veined nature entire,
a physically deep soured sorrow fulfilling
the few crevices and cracks as of yet, tearwater unpolluted
and we have no conception of a new
mournful
prayer to utter,
deemed deserving of an
Amen.
end.