Phillip A.
Ellis is a freelance critic, poet and scholar. His chapbooks, The Flayed Man
and Symptoms Positive and Negative, are available. He is working on a
collection for Diminuendo Press. Another has been accepted by Hippocampus
Press. He is the editor of Melaleuca. His website is at
http://www.phillipaellis.com/
The war is not over. We continue to fight,
find ourselves wearied, worn down.
The piano plays in a bar, where we find ourselves
as we listen to the sob and clubbing of gunfire,
and we wonder, wrapping thoughts around truth,
like the hands we wrap around our glasses,
whether it was worth it, this endless fight,
whether it was worth brutal force.
We ask who will win the war, and do not say
what we imagine to be the truth,
for it does not take the brave to stay alive
when we would rather be the cowards that we are,
finding a haven in a place
made of 1s and 0s, where we can no longer be weary.
No comments:
Post a Comment