Saturday, August 22, 2020

#BlogElul Day 2

Act 

           

                Don’t turn your face away.

            Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.

              Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.

            Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.

                Vashti Quiroz-Vega


bundled in blankets

sleeping on a mattress

of corrugated cardboard

wearing heavy clothes

even when the television prophet 

predicts hot steamy weather

and exhorts listeners to drink

water, stay cool


in the morning the blanket

folded into a square

packed

into a grocery cart 

and pushed down the street

to a square of concrete


a sun the size of a quarter

illuminates a handheld sign

hungry in black letters 

homeless in block print


tonight 

the blankets

stay in the cart


is it time

to act













 




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