Saturday, July 8, 2017

Remembering past horrors in the face of new ones

We were so innocent back then.

Confessions of a Youthful American Killer


Your laughter hurts.
I cry but
no one offers comfort.
Outcast in a mass of faces
looking past
tomorrow.
Coats that cover truths
remain imprinted after
words and films
depicting death fade
into joyous springtime
flowers, growing into
weeds unnoticed.
Out of sight to
suns and moons, but not
to bits and bytes,
instructions told all
listening of our demonic
rise to fall;
past caring for our life,
past hoping for redemption,
in place of tears, we
laugh and
shoot and
blow up what
we cannot have.
Acceptance.

© Catherine Woods 1999, 2017

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