Bill Eberle: the poem I'm trying to write
the poem I'm trying to write
is about the trauma we're all feeling
I can't listen to music now
its beauty would spoil the poem
just the words and thoughts
nothing else
just the poem I'm trying to write
Bill Eberle is a board game designer (Cosmic Encounter, DUNE, Decipher) and a member of Rockport Public Library's Poet's Corner, which meets twice a month via Skype.
it's like an awakening
seeing everything the way it really is
so fragile
safety security and nursery rhymes
shredded
it's not funny but I'm smiling
I've been here before
so many deaths
mine and all the others
battlefields carpeted with lost hopes
close streets with death oozing from every door
carts piled high
cars twirling in a river flowing away from the sea
I've been here before
my ghost has been here before
and now it's happening again
everywhere all across the planet all at once
and I'm trying to write about the beginning
the shock
not being able to not see
the virus an eloquent intelligence test
a pitiless sieve for pretension greed and illusion
and I'm thinking about the numbness
how we're each trying to hide
the trauma we're all feeling
and this is just the beginning
the virus has something to say
about who we really are
and now we have to listen
Thomaston, July 11
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