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Visit to a Murderer's Home
Mention not his murderous act
Of years ago
That would not be polite
Polite ?
Are you mad
To think of politeness here
Still, it would not be
Polite or appropriate,
Or civil,
Or what?
No word to
Describe what it would not be
Yet on the walls everywhere
There are mementos
Newspaper clippings:
Forgetting is not the answer
Mention not
What cannot be forgotten
It is there
Burning in the mind
A pain,
Suppress the pain
With another layer
Of pain
Suppress that pain -
With another new layer of pain
Suppress that pain -
Another layer -
How shall this
ever stop?
Can it stop?
The pain
must come out
Smoke erupts
It cannot be not mentioned
Say it then aloud, man
But now, face the devastation
Of your murderous friend
Having mentioned
It
His face says
You cannot be the friend
Of a murderer
If you are, that makes you
An accomplice
Not a friend
And in my visit I search
How to be a friend
And not to be an accomplice
Kindness is not enough
Too blind, too bland
What is ?
Say then
"We are all potential murderers"
Ha ha
It is not true
Not true
not consolation,
not consecration,
There is a big
Difference
Between potential murder
And murder
Murder has consequence
That is the Law
Not man made
- Really, really not.
What then?
What if ....
What if I could
Really love,
Love the murderer
Without forgetting,
Show him
The pain
But make that love
Surround the pain
Surround the pain
With love
With love
I would not be an accomplice
But then I would be more
Than a friend
Can I single out
My murderer friend
In this way
from all my other friends?
I cannot.
Not properly. If I love him
I must love all
This leaves me
Where I am
In the murderer's home
In pain, choked in smoke
And a glimmer, a glimmer
Of blind, blind, always blind hope,
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