Postponement

This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists...men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

we are the moon wearing the black veil of night seeing no sunrise

on the horizon. Gentle winds blow yet dark clouds gather

tornado warnings blare on deaf ears. We were too nice.

Is this the crevasse freedom topples into?

we wait for a savior that never comes and die in inaction.

what could we do really, when the armies of darkness swelled into sight

blinding us with their outrageousness

hypnotic

a cobra weaving entrancing

spiraling looping mesmerizing

Striking. poison spreading the body turning

black and suppurating

Now shocked looking down on ourselves

disbelieving

frozen