L'aura del Campo

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There comes a lean and hungry look

There comes a lean and hungry look...

...to those who roam
among the empty aisles
in search of meaning
or something to inspire them

...as what was once their youth
becomes a cratered landscape
of abandoned dreams
and cast-off plans.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.245] (14.oktober.2021)

Submitted to Express it in Eight

There comes a softening — to the breath

There comes a softening...

...to the breath
when the neck is kneeled upon
and the pressed into the earth
by a burly man in blue.

...and to the witnesses
of "No Lives Matter" perplexed
that 'there, but for the Grace of God'
they could be next.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.243] (14.oktober.2021)