Means and Extremes
Today I feel sliced
Crossed factors no longer
Adding up
My friend, my counselor
Is gone
A singer is gone
A songbird wayward on its
Path
And fifty and fifty more
Are dead and wounded
In one place
Forty more in Bangladesh
Killed by the kind that
Above turned ill
Who took our celebrations?
Thirty years ago
My mother died today
No wonder, then, with
All that’s now divided
I cannot find my way
A time to dance
A time to mourn
A time to play
A time to play like children
A time to play music
Like children
Simply with easy
Spirit-suffusion
Solomon sings true
For us
When we lose our beloveds
A time to pray
A time to cry
A time to take what we have
With what we know
To open onto the good path
Another way
To take down barriers
To walk together
Lifting those who can’t
To multiply our source
And have it all, recourse
clcouch123 
June 14, 2016 at 2:54 am
I ‘m lifting you up tonight my brother with caring and prayer. I’m so sorry for your personal loss and the tragedy in Florida.
June 15, 2016 at 11:25 pm
Thank you! I’m deeply grateful!
June 14, 2016 at 4:26 am
Sorry for all those you!ve personally lost Christopher. You must have been young when you lost your mother, young enough anyways. I think the sadness of Florida is felt throughout the world, such terror ripples out. Hopefully, we can take down “barriers” and share our “source” as you write. We can only learn, and hope to better prepare and protect. To stop those from the wrong source.
June 15, 2016 at 11:27 pm
Thank you, Mandi. Yes, my mother died young; and we were young. I appreciate your thoughtful response. Maybe if we share more openly with those we should, hard feelings might soften. We can only hope and try.
June 14, 2016 at 9:00 am
oh my.. that opening lines sliced through me. with all the lives loss… yes.. let’s cry and pray and remember that to live is a gift we must always treasure. ❤
June 15, 2016 at 11:29 pm
Life is a treasure, sister. We should prize each other’s lives and our own.
June 16, 2016 at 2:55 am
that is so true, brother. i hope more humans realize and honor that.
June 17, 2016 at 6:23 pm
Christopher.. I can only imagine how hard this piece must have been to write. But yes, writing is a great way to get out some of those feelings.
Sending you hugs!!
Dajena
June 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm
Thanks for the hugs! Hugs from friends are helps.