Today's poem is by Justin Marks
Belief and Naivety
The face is a template of which
A country we no longer recognize
but pretended we didn't
Anger that sustains itself with anger
The ruin we inflict on the world
of the ruin we further seek
Dark highways illuminated
The light in me
that is the light
A name
Heartbreak from which
there are only so many versions
that is the country we've always recognized
Our greatest sin
about being angry
getting in the way
to inflict on the world
by hills on fire
that is the light in you
in all of us
A memory
there is no recovery
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Copyright © 2023 Justin Marks All rights reserved
from If This Should Reach You in Time
Barrelhouse Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission
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