May 18: Danez Smith, "a note on the body," Potential

Once more, I find myself angry and sad on a night of senseless loss.  I'm not going to go on and on about the need for sensible gun legislation.  Or the cowards in Congress and the White House.  I'm just going to focus on what could have been.  All the potential. 

Saint Marty sends this poem to all the young lives in Santa Fe . . .

a note on the body

by:  Danez Smith

your body still your body

your arms still wing

your mouth still a gun

          you tragic, misfiring bird

you have all you need to be a hero

don’t save the world, save yourself

you worship too much & you worship too much

when prayer doesn’t work:      dance, fly, fire

this is your hardest scene

when you think the whole sad thing might end

but you live      oh, you live

everyday you wake you raise the dead

          everything you do is a miracle