A Moment Aflame

Originally posted to LoPotterWrites.com on July 15th, 2020

Published in L’identité Politique by Lo Potter

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Photo by Lo Potter - As usual, the poem is mostly unrelated to the image

A Moment Aflame

at tables cleaned and polished by our own hands we sit
attempting personal renaissance:
a moment in time caught fire.
we sit, write, talk, eat, drink, breathe in-
to creation
the desperation
for a life out-
side of this very existence
controlled by desire to satiate the disease of purpose
symptoms driven deep into young minds by
careless words;
unanswered questions:
unfulfilled dreams pushed onto another generation
as lost grown children wander with empty eyes and imploding hearts.

they told us we were equal,
instead,
we are searching for explanations -
why this world has treated our existences like matches:
struck aflame
burned out
thrown away