A WELL TRAVELED HEART

Tag: ignorance

  • BEFORE

    BEFORE


    Before imperfection
    I sought life’s meaning
    not knowing the rowing
    was it, not the arrival.

    Before I became ignorant
    I told others what to do
    believed I had answers
    not knowing even the questions.

    Before I became old
    I found quiet boring
    its slowness a flaw, not knowing
    the rowing was all.
  • ADRIFT

    ADRIFT

    Adrift in time,
    days wash by
    without regard
    for date or name.
    A whole week
    vanished in August.
    There is nowhere to go.
    No one wants our dollars.
    Once we modeled democracy.
    Our story now's a dark comedy.
    The President says the virus
    will vanish like a mist.
    No problem, he’s got this.
    Magical realism is fine for
    Allende and Marquez,
    but has no place in a country where
           people die alone in crowded hospitals
           city folks swarm to the country
           morgue trailers line city streets.
    A pandemic’s not a minor event,
    a slight inconvenience.
    It stops the world.
    No magic can blind us
    to the growing 
    pile of corpses.