Rage
Laurie McMinn

Such a strong word

  not mad

    not angry

      not even fury.

 

Is it the weather on the horizon

  like a hurricane or tsunami approaching

    with natures’ volatile hast.

 

Or whether we

                     can

                         cope

                                      or not.

 

One immediately comes to mind

 

Rage was

               so 

                 unpredictable

                   so

                     violent

                      so

                        threatening.

 

Seed sown and reaped for generations

  who

    will

      repent

        and

                       

               B               t     

                                    h

          R                           e                                    

       

       E                                 c                        

                                         y

         A                            c

                                     l

                 K               e   

                          ?     


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