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A Shroud That Enveloped a Nation |
-after the Texas Shootings, 2019
You will never be alone,
I want to say
to the victims left behind–
blood-soaked, shattered,
watching their loved one
roll away on a stretcher.
But they are alone, for now,
in a cavern of trauma,
taking those first steps
into the void of grief.
Too many now,
wrapped in black
in a land of color.
I offer you my worn-out maps
out of my own caves of loss,
my head held in prayer for you,
oxygen for a world
that cannot breathe.
copyright 2020
Jennie
Lindthorst |
