One Hope

For what may shine.

wooden ladle made of bamboo on the water fountain

That you may one day know a lens not terror, a posture not crouched, sounds neither siren nor drone, and weathers unrhymed with death count. Food to offer, not to reap, and time as a ladle to be passed to the tune of Here, take it. Take what you need. Did you get enough? when no host will rest until everyone is so full that they lose the count, numbers blurring back into beginning, and no one thinks to save the light for when it leaves us.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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