Apology

Apology

 

Sometimes I look into sky

There can be clouds

More viscerally when it’s stars

We see bucolic things

And we should

But sometimes it falls back on me

The sky, the stars

And if one can feel vertigo

When sitting still

Well

 

I’ve tried to imagine it all

And it has smacked back on me

The universe, as if I’m told

Cannot take me now

Don’t even try

It’s not yours

Someday, maybe

 

You’ll know your place

And your way around

 

C L Couch

 

 

(too beautiful, too much)

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1707a/

 

Nykea Aldridge

Nykea Aldridge

(Chicago, Illinois)

 

She was a mom—I

Have to say was—on

Her way to school

To register her child,

Her younger charge

In a stroller Nykea

Was also attending

 

She was shot and

Killed; two brothers

Are now charged

 

There’s so much I don’t

Know, but we know

This:

 

Parents should not

Die this way, nor should

Anyone