Pause: Creative Challenge #245

Pause

 

 

What we are seeing is utterly incomprehensible

Incompressible in its inhuman depravity

Depravity that is robbing us of our very senses

Senses that speak of the reality that we refuse to see

See a sight that shuts out the function of our ears

Ears which can perform in every way but will not

Not wanting to allow our senses to admit the unbelievable

Unbelievable  to the extent that it paralyzes our tongues

Tongues which can not give voice to what must remain mute

Mute in hopes that silence will prevent it from happening again

Again, and again, and again and again in Newtown

Newtown gone old by an unspeakable act that makes us shudder

Shudder as we continue, stopping barely long enough to pause

Pause briefly as we cheer this as a noble example of Democracy

Democracy that deprives many of their life, liberty and happiness

Happiness continues for those who use the 2^nd Amendment to hide

Hide that twenty children and six adults have been robbed of life.

 

 

Tim D. Culey -2013-

 

 

This is an example of  “Loop Poetry.” The last word of line 1 becomes the first word of line two. The last word of line 2 is the first word of line 3. That pattern repeats itself throught the poem. Of the different styles of Loop Poetry I have chosen One Long Stanza, no limit on number of lines, no rhyming scheme, the last word, first word scheme is maintained

 

Point of information: The loss of senses to which I alluded is a true psychological phenomena. It was first identified among those who survived the “Killing Fields” in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Psychologists treated many people for “Hysterical Blindness” and loss of other senses which had no physical cause. It is believed that for those who had to witness these atrocities day in and day out that the mind essentially reached an overload of sensory input and simply chose to shut down the senses rather than go insane by continuing to witness them.

I don’t know if there were any cases of this reported at Sand Hook Elementary or not.