home Poem List next poem Lingering Lulls Palls of inaction and its silence reign As if shadows of quickness would stop shunts Calls for traction to band quiescence again Pass thru pay flows of sickness topping hunts Seeking reasons to justify reason To drive acts of just about any kind Leaving lesions of laughter in season Which survive the hacks has escaped the mind Society has pondered its heart Casting about to explain current war Looking for darkness and some place to start Blasting with doubt disdain's infer-rant door Things have evolved too unfettered in time Lies seem' thick as flies on a bloodied stick While intonation streams lock step with rhyme In short questions to make the slow clocks tick Worlds have been given needed breathing space Since we attend to our mundane affairs When it feels like we've won the questioned race Briefly do we turn away from their cares Families replace famines in daydreams Financing turns from nations to travel We'll listen to chatter in cordial streams Hunting for rationales that unravel (c)ERA 09:51 PM 5/4/03