No Reason To Cry
written by: Wendy Markel
I won’t watch the news tonight
and see another child die,
I won’t shed tears as two more teenagers
lie dead in a street
in the name of some unholy war,
for a god I deny.
I won’t question evil,
or fail to understand how parents maim,
or children kill for some imaginary cause;
to be like Leopold and Loeb.
I won’t watch the squirming politicians try
To justify the unguided bombs they drop.
I won’t watch the news tonight,
so I have no reason to cry.
That’s the biggest lie.
Wendy Markel is the author of The Second Life Of Claire, a novel currently in the editing process. In no particular order; Dog-Mother, reader, writer, baker, wife, gin-maker.
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