Short Rigidly Poems

First instinct is to second guess 
Quick trigger to point the finger 

Rigidly pushing against reality
Swiftly pulls us from actuality 

Let's not live in subtraction
But add up grace in its place 

Replace reject with accept 
To embrace all that we face

Our reactions are a choice 
Try choosing a positive voice...

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The drumroll, too heavy for May
    rumbles on ... abruptly halts
  Cadets at attention rigidly
    silently, duty-bound ... 

  In measured tones, a psalm floats on
    a breeze made limp by heat
  Taps screams out, the flag is lowered
    to its echoes, a box sinks down... 

  Cadets as still as statues still
    'til cadence soft of drums resumes
  Their comrade now interred for aye
    eyelids lowered, red the sky...

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