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Covenant-Keeping

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We grieve

That is the right response

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It happens right away

And is ongoing

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Mostly it’s the loss

And who’d have thought

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Regardless

Of the news

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It should happen

On a school day?

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While we still think

Of school days

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The days when

Sun and light should happen

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On the playground

Or we stay inside

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When tension in the classroom

Over subjects is enough

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How did we make the trade

Of shoes on tile

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For the reports

Of guns instead?

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For now it is the loss

We don’t want

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To imagine

Even though there are

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Those who must

See and hear

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And every other sense

Invest

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In the lifting

And the carrying away

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Even then,

Through the earthly horror

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There is what’s inside

Now gone

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To grieve the most

Shock, fear, crashing grief

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Anger and activity

And needful inactivity

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Maybe someday about

The keeping and the letting go

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C L Couch

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What unfolded today: Former student Audrey Elizabeth Hale, age 28, kills three children, three adults at Nashville elementary school; cops gun down attacker

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Dark Peony

Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

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