[This is to be read as an acrostic poem]
Please, send prayers, illuminating the
lightless moments
effusing rounded edges
absent the acrimony of the
streets and rues and avenues
emptied of their peacemakers,
tell your loved ones and all your ones and all your not-your ones
how much you love them
every single day, don’t let them forget, lest they become
creations
again (another) destroyed
reflecting on the
neverending violence
as we wait for a
g-dsend, an
end,
mark me not with sorrow but with the sound and light of
a new day, for we are all babies who cry out inside, inside out
kiss my teensy toes wiggling fingers open-shut-open eyes and don’t you dare forget the tips of my ears, the
edges of my psyche, it’s your job to make it soft and keep it that way too, don’t stop, you can’t stop, not now
infuse this bloodlusting bleeding out, this blood-loss blood lost shard of
time with new matter, clean sheets, fresh ground, new Earth
souls come
together
once again,
please.