The Hours
we live
a long distance
a short turn
a middle mile
and the history books tell
the stories
of how people were
the times they lived in
died in
what they faced
what they had to overcome
war and famine
persecution and property
the selling of someone
the judgment of belief
or disbelief
the taking of a life
were it not your own
men
women
and children
too much to atone
there is no present
the past has not provided
“a small world …
after all”
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