i was the casual victim of a stoning today…
started innocently enough
with one elder tossing an underhanded pebble
defensively at me
which i might have easily been able to brush off
and go about my day as if nothing significant had happened…
but then a single solitary rock
came flying silently almost out of nowhere
taking me quite by surprise
knocking me off my feet
and wounding me quite significantly
(if only it had been a little boulder)
and then faster than you can bleat “sticks and stones”
a barrage of missiles
each deadlier than the last
were launched in my direction
as if the weight of saying nothing
had been enough to press the buttons…
the one who had declared the war
seemed completely oblivious
to the violence his thoughtless act had invited
as he was too busy being triumphantly carried away
on the shoulders of those who had tried so desperately
not to get involved
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[For a poem i wrote a while ago called ‘Assumptions’ click here]
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