Impact

by Poet on the Piano   Apr 16, 2013


No one would ever imagine the
waves of terror and raw emotion
that now sweep across Boston corners.
No one would believe an unnamed person
could shatter time itself and shift
history's dreams-
two bombs that treacherously
ticked
then terminated like a thousand torpedoes.

Every channel prints the numbers,
but doesn't measure up to the
reality that life is so unstable
and nothing is guaranteed,
even in woeful joy...

Hearts whimpered, eyes thundered,
wounds with no explanation.
Why? And Who? And for what
purpose? Because I don't see
the Reason.

No one really knows
where our actions are headed, and how
once they're set in motion,

they're hard
.....to stop.

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Written 4/16/13 @ 12:45 pm. We had to write a poem today for our creative writing class about what we're feeling now or the events around us, and this one the one thing I felt and had heard about that I wanted to write something on. Prayers & thoughts for this tragedy in Boston.

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  • 11 years ago

    by Skyfire

    This was a wonderful tribute to what happened in Boston. I think you really captured the emotional side of things.

  • 11 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    You portrayed this situation so well, who knows what their motives are for this, we will probably never know. I just read up on the recent happenings, it seems to have got worse over night. It's so sad that so many innocent lives were taken because of this. I wish violence didn't exist, things like these makes the world less safe and that's not what we need. You wrote the emotions & such in true poetic form, and once again you prove you can write about anything. :D

  • 11 years ago

    by Karla

    Great write!

  • 11 years ago

    by Darren

    So true.

    Great poem POTP, you have taken a different stance to most, yet ask some great questions.

    I agree with both Tara and Linda

    great write as always.

  • 11 years ago

    by Marcy Lewis

    This is very calming. I don't know why this calmed my heart about the situation, but it does. The way our club is handling this situation with such grace, confusion, and care rather than a red-seeing vengence, is just so kind, and I can't express how much I prefer it to anger - though there's a right to anger. These kinds of poems are just empathetic, and they reach my heart.

    The wording on this is fantastic. I can't even go through the whole piece because my comments are nothing to this poem - it all speaks for itself. I've cried at nearly every poem I've read today, this is not an exception. What really stole my voice was "Hearts whimpered, eyes thundered, wounds with no explanation." That was so sensory. It just gave me such a feeling of helplessness that my fellow American family members must have been feeling. It gave me this overpowering need to go do something, to offer some kind of comfort or refuge in this darkness.

    Beautiful.

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