Get Your Premium Membership

Read Staged Poems Online

NextLast
 

A REVIEW OF THIS NEW STAGED REALITY

Despair sought a captive audience;
Hope showed up instead with faith—
Handing out flyers with grab bags
Of treats of sweeting courage:-
Remembrance was the opening act:
Its recall was loaded with, “That’s A Fact!”

The waterfall of the blood of memory fell:
We’ve survived 400+ years of slavery;
We’ve survived the hanging of strange fruits;
We’ve survived the KKK’s bombing us;
We’ve survived the Jim Crow’s droppings;
We’ve survived unjust shootings and kneeings;
We’ve survived all debilitations spewed upon us;
Yes…the waterfall of the blood of memory fell:-

Intermission has come and passed on,
And the curtains opens on Act Two:-
The stage has been set and checked;
And the mind checks Shakespear out;
The new tragedy, merely an old reality:
We’ll survive this “Triumphed-up” eddy too:-

The curtains will close again
But it will not be the end:-
Remember, only workers die,
The work still goes onward!
Survive…we always have…
And survive…we always will…

Virtual awareness review is over;
Now wipe away those tears of apathy
And get up and grab your bag and go
Do what you need to do:-*


*N.B.: If there be any virtue in all of this,
Open-up you mind and think on it:-

Copyright © Millard Lowe

NextLast



Book: Reflection on the Important Things