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writing on the wall ... [a] prayer for the newly fallen in potters field ... by ... i a e ( i am everyone) ... first posted April 11, 2020 @ the ye11ow sub blog (prelude added, with [marker] notations)
Then ... like now ... friends, family, loved ones, newly acquainted, strangers, or passers by ... faced the virus together, but yet alone, with uncertainty and fear. Resolute, none the less, to endure ... hopefully to persevere through all of it. I as did all others. April of 2020 was like a dark night of an ever darkening storm. One like many others that Americans have faced over the history of this country, but yet different ... sadly in every sense of the word. To that moment, I came face-to-face with that newly re-branded nationwide helplessness, as did many others ... as we watched loved ones pass before us (U.S.) ... out of touch, out of reach, and without being family blessed or goodbye carried to their final place of rest. Not for evermore ... clearly marked, clearly named, and clearly dated [from birth to demise] highlighted with profound remembrance by our words, to-be carved everlasting into their final marker for all to see. Then I learned of Potter's Field ... and the all of the above ... plus ... the now never before imagined. So I stopped to think, to wonder thoughts, further pondering writers of the past, present or future, and then wrote down to this page ... these markings ... my words ... of solitary thought, spiritual outreach, or ghostly whisper ... for those, now as then ... left resting ... fully enclosed in unfinished, prairie-book, tumbleweed, pine sentiment.
-:-
unnamed and unclaimed
through no fault of their own
america's reward
for
the heroes
the innocent
the accidental
or the just otherwise
no need for capitals
no time for the comas
prolong the punctuation
not even a sentence will be writ
[marker]
it has come to this
[marker]
i
woke up
with a dream
of a foreign land
a home away from home
my dwelling within a house
[marker]
i
traveled across the sea
just so i could be a me
[marker]
i
am
[marker]
i was here
[marker]
i
did more than was expected
[marker]
i
wanted to do more
[marker]
i
was the greater
sum of low expectations
[marker]
i
persevered
[marker]
i
worked hard
[marker]
i
always said thank you
[marker]
i
rarely smiled
but i was happy
[marker]
i
am not lost
[marker]
i
am over here
[marker]
i
loved the city
[marker]
i
was alone in a crowd
[marker]
i
am still alone in a crowd
[marker]
i
am what's left
of the so-called right
[marker]
i
am
better
than this
[marker]
i
me
my
[marker]
i
had a family
that i loved
[marker]
i
had a family
that loved me
[marker]
i
thank those
strangers who tried to help
[marker]
i
bless those
who cried for all
[marker]
i
am not alone here
[marker]
i
the space for the next one
~^~
only god is a witness now to these events
deeds misdeeds negligence malice greed
the missing four comas from above
the missing four comas from above
i am spring
i am summer
i am fall
i am winter
i am you all
i am no other
i am none the less
i am forever reminder
i am no less and never more
a raven watches over all of us
a drone flies over in the sky
no eagle has landed
no flag has been uncovered
no soles have been saluted
no hats have been removed
only workers prodded to be busy
only grace to be song
only lunch will be breaking
from dusk until dawn
in the distance a fog horn is sounding
as the water ripples past
another barge is here for docking
what was present, it now just past
while god saved the queen, no god came to save us
Send me an angel from Montgomery
[fellow] tunemeister John Prine ...
for one i [a fan] know you are not [buried] here
[likewise, you know] it was a four way stop dilemma
[... and] ... it went around and around [and around ...].
[marker]
i
am
not
forgotten
[marker]
my
name would
have been here
[marker]
myself my wife
and all of my family
are listed as missing
[marker]
i am an american
[marker]
this space is blank
[marker]
i am the ghost in the mirror of every tomorrow
[marker(s]
i am the potter in the field
i am the drop in the rain
i am the cool in the wind
i am the ocean breeze
i am the sum of all totals
i am the lost and found
i am the trash and the recycle
i am the mud and the earth
[and the dust and the dirt]
i was the body in an ice truck
an asterisk in search of a location
[i am we, the who and the ...]
what ... in the many pine boxes.
[ LABELED: Potter's Field Box ]
~ for whom no bell tolls for today ~
-:-
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