Thankyou for this pure and clear message. It’s telling me that other people are feeling the same way about the world and can’t merely sit back and do nothing.
The repetition echoes here as it does in my mind. Sometimes I wonder which ocean the blood would fill if somehow it was all fresh at once since the beginning of time.
Fred, I sympathize with you. I feel helpless because I don’t have answers or solutions. Repeated violence, so many lost lives and for what? To satisfy those in power . You’re not alone in your outrage.
Thank you for reposting this poem, Fred. It speaks well to this present era in which we find ourselves and the genocide that is going on now in Gaga. Would you please do me a favour and put a link to it in one of the comment boxes in my poem, or put the whole poem in there if you wish to. It's very true and very good.
Thankyou for this pure and clear message. It’s telling me that other people are feeling the same way about the world and can’t merely sit back and do nothing.
Thank you , Frederick
We're caught between witnessing and helplessness, between knowing and the terrible knowledge that knowing changes nothing.
Perhaps the most honest answer is that we keep asking, even when the silence that follows becomes its own kind of response
Thank you, a.m. I’ve been asking for 60 years, after I realized as a teen that not all was what we were told it was or what it seemed.
thank you for never stopping
The repetition echoes here as it does in my mind. Sometimes I wonder which ocean the blood would fill if somehow it was all fresh at once since the beginning of time.
Thank you, Rena, for the restack.
Thank you, Fred. A stark reminder 🌸
Thank you, Carolyn, for the restack.
The answer is still ‘blowin’ in the wind’.
A powerful one Fred 🤔💙❤️🕊️
again and again, it's beyond discouraging.
Powerful. Visual.
Very true!
And every time it happens, people encourage it as being somehow good for someone.
Again and again 🌻
Thank you, Kathleen, for the restack.
Fred, I sympathize with you. I feel helpless because I don’t have answers or solutions. Repeated violence, so many lost lives and for what? To satisfy those in power . You’re not alone in your outrage.
Thank you for reposting this poem, Fred. It speaks well to this present era in which we find ourselves and the genocide that is going on now in Gaga. Would you please do me a favour and put a link to it in one of the comment boxes in my poem, or put the whole poem in there if you wish to. It's very true and very good.
https://frederickfullerton.substack.com/p/again-and-again-dea
https://frederickfullerton.substack.com/p/again-and-again-dea
It happens again and again…
outliers driven by madness
with access to power and weapons.
What do we say
about nations
whose leaders fail to act?
How many times
must we endure
the murders of children
and innocents?
How many times
must we see weeping
faces and hear sobs
of sorrow and despair?
How many times
must we hear vapid words
from excuses to condolences
of hollow thoughts and prayers?
How many times
will some pols voice outrage
while others deflect
and gloss over?
Again and again
we hear it’s not …
it’s ….
Again and again
nothing is done
Again and again
we shake our heads.