unnecessary loss of souls

 

the lovely sun was shining bright today and i

felt its joyful rays fill the day with the verve of life,

but as my spirit was dancing, without suspicion,

tears began to well in mine eyes and abruptly

started flowing down the cheeks of my face

 

i knew not, in that moment why, but in reflection

i had realized that, although my spirit was dancing

with the vibrations of the sun’s rays, my heart and

mind had been accumulating feelings and thoughts

of those who weren’t so blessed

 

an acute moment of sadness came o’er me and,

so then, my body gave way to the angst and pains

that others may have been feeling while my fortune

of dance and joy of my spirit came face to my heart

for the souls and spirits of those that cannot

 

the imaginings within became overwhelmed by

the sadness and pain of those not only in this far

away land but also for those here at home in the

U.S. who had lost loved ones from the insidious

Pandemic these last two years

 

how blessed i and my family is that my last name

is not Taylor, Floyd, Brown, Tamir, Arbery or Locke

and their families left behind wondering, ‘why,

just for being black in America’?

 

all these images and thoughts floundered about

in my mind along with the images of bombed cities

of Kyiv, Kharkiv, etc., in Ukraine, and the millions of

civilians displaced. the images of fathers, mothers,

brothers, sisters, little children’s tears, all their

faces of trauma and fear.

 

Why? For what?