A Disappearing Fact
All sins in every place and every time
Are sins, not matter what. The sins long past
Are hard for us to realize. Each crime
That we have not committed like the vast
Ones, Buchenwald and Auschwitz, we can not
Quite deal with, never mind Hiroshima
And slaughter of Americans when caught
In fierceness fighting on Iwo Jima.
The sins that we will never see because
They’re in the future are so far beyond
Imagination that there are no laws
To bring them to our brains. We can’t respond.
The best that we can say with no real fear
Is sins will go when humans disappear.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2024 | Uncategorized |