Musings of an educator proctoring a PSAT

Our world is tanking -
financially, morally
reprehensible acts of knowing,
perpetrated on the suspicious ignorant.
those which cannot defend;
those who are called to defend;
suffering for those who won't
dying more each day.

Fighting wars,
wars they didn't start.
Systems they never belonged to
chained to their own reckoning
watching the boat sink

Unsavory apathetic youth
observe idly
conform and desist
thrusting their discontent
on those who seek to help them
Fighting not with what keeps them -
oppressed and ignorant
But with each other
unknowing of their power -
effective only in numbers.
Incapable of mobilizing
trapped in their own ignorance

Doing the dance
pushing back
wanting them angry enough
to react
create change
damage the status quo
dramatically transform
their world; our world
their futures

Relationships...

Moment to moment satisfaction
crucified for whole picture reality
a crucial turning point
unavoidable - - unaccepting

Hiking on Columbus Day

a silent lover
watching the wind shiver
shaking leaves like clothes
to teh soft bed below
brightly colored memories
decorate the path
guiding confused straight
holding the earth still
for moments
allowing quiet calm
slumber beneith the naked
anonymous sky

a fresh smell
of new life
beckons from the distant forest
calling just beyond
the horizon
in the hidden treeline
a longing to discover
the origin of its voice
a siren of the abyss
serenading a longing within

the rooster cocks from
the dense folliage
a smile finds itslef
on a forgotten mouth
a light beacon
amind the seemingly
unending darkness

pushing to understand
developing courage
only for a complete
lack of validation
of what took so much