Monday, November 10, 2008

Learning from Sadness

Have you ever seen an empty vessel
sunk into a shallow sea?
Brine and bone, and all alone,
is what we're destined for eventually.

Have you ever heard a wailing mother,
weeping for her fallen son?
And his child and widowed bride,
staring at his coffin stunned?


copyright Joseph Bishara

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