Reprieve
It is easy to list the miseries,
To call down the sky
For every wrong committed.
Repetition is amplification
Even when you weep.
It is okay to step away
Before you break.
So here, a moment of quiet.
Filled with strange texts
And random memories,
For Poets are more than
The world's "legislators"
They are also its jesters
And its storytellers.
I offer no solution or salvation
In my bag of tricks
Only allegory and fiction,
Fantasy and desire,
Wonder and hope.
It is all that I have,
But I am happy to share.
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