January 30, 2017 - Vijaya Sundaram

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Rescue
©January 30th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram

What do you say when

Democracy spins towards

An end that you didn’t

Vote for?

You cry, “Not on my watch!”

And you, and you, and you

Race towards it

As it teeters at the edge

Of a wedge of earth, a cliff,

Suicidal and mad, a King Lear

Full of fear, sans love, sans reason,

Made small by greed and loathing.

And you grab it by the ankles

Spinning it towards you,
And you, and you, and you, and it

Are falling backward on the cool, cool grass.

You see the sky

Reeling above your head

And you join hands and smile.

And bit by bit, you (and you, and you)

Lift it up, as it staggers

Tottering, but alive, and lead it

Back to where it came from.

And you, and you, and you,

Nurse it back to health.

Do not let it die.
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