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Lamentation

born among the travelers of her day  
she played in the sandpile with Woody Guthrie 
sung in the chorus with Allen Ginsberg 
walked in the way of The Weavers
and bathed in the rhythms of Miles Davis
she lived unconfined and dreamed of change. 

today, we see her still betrothed 
committed to this sacred ground 
searching asking, questioning, ...
consumed with her desire to know
engaged to a doctrine as a lover's pledge
she marches, occupies, writes, 
relentlessly struggles, driven to ask
to whom shall she lament
for life's ambivalent adaptations?

her life defines her cogent mission. 
she continues to flay against an unjust world
where equity kindness trickles down
and evaporates among negative forces.
shall she rage against God 
for not eliminating suffering 
in the details of man's creation?
shall she cry to the architect 
who left man to face the agonies 
of hunger, war, sickness, 
and the loneliness of death?
to whom shall she lament
for life's ambivalent adaptations?

will the glorification of beauty
love, compassion, and mercy suffice?
will her breath, touch, hearing,
sight or taste suffice?
will her ancestors, her tribes
her spouse, her children
rise up and see her as blessed?
or will a requiem be the one
purpose of her life's fulfillment? 
to whom shall she lament
for life's ambivalent adaptations? 

C.A.K. 3-17-2013

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