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A NIGHT WITHOUT END
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JOURNAL #32 I read this very day
such remorse
upon the lips of a stranger
and for my curious spectator self
that was at many levels
such a surprising occurrence
as most do not so deeply penetrate
beyond this poet's watchful veneer
for disconnected observance comes
commonly like a gift
but in her words and shattered expression
I found myself entirely
encapsulated
by another's crippling experience
oh what an emotional beating she
indeed must have endured
though I'm quite certain the physical
was brutal
to rupture one's very soul
such as this
the metaphysical I surmised
must be heinously worse
during a rape no less
that was so senselessly in vain
I was thankful to realize
the first
she got away
it was only her corpse that was
violated
but the sweet more innocent second
she had to over bear such butchered witness
to the mind altering facts of
violence and brutality
upon her friend
when she could not yet know
that she had already exited from that evening's hell
physically she herself was barely harmed
but raped too the living one was
but worst of all it was just in her last
memories of her dearly so brutally departed
friend that very grizzly night
when terror took them both away from
the only lives they had known
one most blessedly
escaped to heaven
the other into a life time of
unforgettable hell
and like Christ himself
his very words
fluttered into my mind
forgive them Father
for they know not what they do...........
(written July 26, 2007 207am)
