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"Cœur de Lion"

what makes a hero?

the hero heart 
doesn’t beat
it roars, 

calling in all 
the shrouds
ears and eyes open

eventually,
they all hear
the call

what makes a hero?
today, you may be,
but maybe not, tomorrow

what of tomorrow?
the child inside 
queries adult quandary

fear faced front on
more than words
read and spoken

the voice of the inner
child speaks, 
the adult listens

12 seconds to midnight
the body confronted 
the soul lifted

the reconciliation
with self, now wafer thin
a lifetime’s token handed in

“no more pain,”
Cœur de Lion instructs,
“Love turns it back on war, 

Love turns its back,
Love turns away,
come child

eyes on me,
always,
this way”

trauma confounded
embraced, Love wins 
Truth, this way

no winners 
in wars
all discover this

in the end 
of their days;
what makes a hero?

Resolution
letting loose of 
all that time took away

“no more pain,”
Coeur de Lion instructs,
“Love turns away

from what shrouds
preach best, 
no one better, nor best, 

there is no victory

in wars, the games
men like gods play,
spitting bullets and bombs

like verbose vitriol
their blood as ink, seered 
into pages burning

turning over 
like sleeping white flags, 
dissolving to lucid dreams,

far too late;

all discover this
in their own time, all
semicolons marked as 

unsung heroes
far too late, the music 
arrives, by the heard

in the end 
of their 
story book days

heroes 
unseen,
and seen
 
to be sung 
and 
to be heard

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)








"Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege"/Joseph Fasano



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