Things were going just fine<\/p>\n
cordial, cold, robotic, no\u00a0acrimony<\/p>\n
When\u00a0I broke the calm<\/p>\n
by asking\u00a0the entirely wrong question.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Fighting renewed, airplanes overhead<\/p>\n
Daily barrage of AK47 rapid fire<\/p>\n
in the electronic street of emails<\/p>\n
Your aggressive Stalin to my calmer Churchill.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Collateral damage is inevitable;<\/p>\n
children crying with limbs blown off<\/p>\n
mentally and emotionally wounded psyches<\/p>\n
triggering PTSD tears.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I renewed the truce<\/p>\n
withdrew my request<\/p>\n
ended the battle<\/p>\n
fearful the damage is irreparable.<\/p>\n
—————————-<\/p>\n
(I took a graduate poetry writing class at Morehead State University. The professor would assign simple prompts which we would develop into 20 apertures. This poem was inspired by the prompt “I hope …” which was my apertures “I hope that people who hate me now will moderate to apathy soon enough”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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