Climate of Sorrow
Will our children
have those same
long sunburned
stretched out
moments of
immortality,
lying in the sun
thinking of nothing;
or have we
collapsed
the world
around them
with our
childish
fears?
The author is a poet, writer and playwright who lives in Eagle Rock.
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