Through the wilderness of my mind’s landscape
A thousand images compete for space
A snapshot of a section of this pictorial chaos
Unfolds before you.
The exhilaration of a summer today
Freshening, virginal rain shower
A thin veil of cloud-mist crossing
A shy full moon, ushered along by
A tender breeze from the Deep South.
A beggar’s tatters, oversewn with stitches of poverty and pain
The searing agony that accompanies the plight of a dying child’s
sigh!
The jubilation of an operation well done and the grateful tears of
loved one
The quiet joy of basking your parent’s pride at a life saved
The tearing feeling of witnessing the progressive rot of a human body
It’ innards by cancer flayed....
Award functions and medal,
A mother’s smile the heartache of seeing a dad walking a foot....
Like it was an entire mile
The pure bliss of my first born’s gurgle cutting through the crisp
may air
His mother’s wan and tired smile after child’s birth
A rare and previous memory!!!
The flame and heat of the cemetery and my grandmother’s bones lie
bare
A thousand stars twinkling at me....
From the pitch-black Maldivian sky
The indifferent face of the American diplomat
Blaming six hundred Afghan children’s deaths
On “collateral damage”
Five Amish couples giving a large portion of their donations
To the widow and children of
The mad man who shot and killed their offsprings
Before turning the gun on himself.
These.........
And a thousand other images
Compete for space
Through the wilderness of my mind’s landscape!!!!!
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