Today
I felt a moment
of sadness
flicked in from nothing
a moment given
for the mourning
of those who have no
other
I wondered
whose loss I had been assigned
who they had been
before the trap closed
whether they were always
anonymous
born and died with the
light touch
flying with dragging feet
Or were violently electric
bursting and
sputtering to the end
like a cardboard firework
I saluted
took the dip
waited it out
for the good of
life.
Wordland 