On the Knife Edge

even this 
room looks different
    and as for
the rest of the
city - well I shudder to 
think of how 
it's changed 
      rock doves land on 
      the ground
  they, at least 
seem rational
        Looking up 
at the clouds
    I see 
new and starlling 
             formations
We walk on the edge
       of a knife
          and only 
    through
           diligent effort 
                               can 
                                   we 
avoid 
         being 
cut
    our blood is 
our own
             there 
is hope, always
 hope
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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Dietrich Avatar
September 9, 2010 at 10:45 PM
A very interesting read. Gosh, I need to think of a pattern for how I am reading your poems. I hope I can remember I am on page 6!!! Let me see one more now. Andrea
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