Death Throes

We are witnessing the

death throes of the violence

that cannot live on if

we wish to

We are being

shaken to our knees

by small minds

that hark to

yesterday

They hark in vain

We wake and see

the end of either-or

the end of sacrificial

posturing

the end of

serious consideration

of injustice as

a world MO

We rise

We stretch

We come alive

and gently

lay three pieces down

Reality

Ethics

Aesthetics

and kiss the

triad of our

common future