Shades of Sunrise

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Central Park remains its usual casual “run and stroll” mode, while Syria topping 1,000,000 refugees, and Chad now deluged with 200,000 refugees from Darfur, struggle to stay human.

Shades of Sunrise Dew about to escape Breath exchanging life's elements Another day of deals Running shoes padding rhythms Ready the boardroom battles Clopping horses arriving for oats Tourists to enchant Occasional honk Distress already starting Cabs feeling lonely So goes Central Park awakening Chad's sunrise-oppression unbearable One tree shade refuge Shoulder to shoulder Elbow to elbow Meager shelter respites Awaiting Doctors Without Borders Despair's awaited visit Anxious tears begging cessation Land Rover dust billowing Through distant heat rising Reality's desert-St. Nick on schedule Time's super-human visitor arriving For a refugee park arousing Forgotten daybreaks Sun not seen Clouds of smoke Layered upon layer Acrid death and bomb residual levitating From yesterday Last week Earlier months Years ago Trees Bushes Flowers Now but surreal imaginings Held ever so precious Beside today's reality A Syrian city without walls Windows Roofs Basements Only rubble Crumbling ever faster More shell holes Bigger bombs Pulverizing all vestige of civilization Seemingly endless murder and destruction Reminding all A dictator's Neanderthal mind-set Club crunching club Rock crushing rock Delivers daily battle zone awakenings Seemingly in perpetuity Where... Where Might innocent sunrises See the light Once again?

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