What Use Are Words
What use are words
when the earth shakes
and lips fall silent
under the crush
of brick and concrete.
What use are words
when all of the worlds
libraries couldn't hold
even a portion
of the suffering and grief
that weighs there.
What can be said
when there is no vocabulary
for what was portrayed
in a single photograph
of a father holding the hand
of his lifeless daughter
reaching out of the rubble.
Such tragedy creates
sacred ground.
There is only a silence
that reaches to God,
and blessed arms that
hold shovels to rescue
the living
and bury the dead.
Copyright © Paul Willason | Year Posted 2023
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