Heorshewas In its Flash ….

In its flash

it took the life … but left the shadow …
intact
it took the life, but left the shadow …

Unlike the true sun …
under which one …
grows and grows until it shows, when lit
a shadow cast

Ablaze these sons of scientific sum
burst forth a different hymn
the dim right of might
that marks the him or her
in shadow … cast

Not by growth, but in the grip
not of light
but
caught as shadows cast
by
hands being held in the grasp
of
the dark mask of men
that don’t ask …

In its flash
war
lasts

4/25/02