This pit of fear is not like all the others<\/p>\n
The pre-battle pit where friends say goodbye
\nwills are signed letters dispatched harmonicas played
\ndear sara I hope you and billy are well. at sunrise we<\/p>\n
The gladiatorial pit where friends turn away
\nand life’s questions become thrusts and parries for
\nthe entertainment of a spoiled rabble<\/p>\n
The waiting pit for Daddy to come home from hunting
\nwith his shotgun and his twenty-two Mossberg rifle
\nand a partridge or two and his very private anger
\nand a bottle of Dewar’s Blended Scotch Whiskey<\/p>\n
The studying pit where the whole year’s
\nefforts and failures hang over a sleep deprived
\nanxious effort to redeem all through unknowns<\/p>\n
The bomber’s pit where the mirror reveals
\nthe assertion that paradise is a compelling
\nparadigm and that death is a step forward<\/p>\n
And there are other pits all dug by humans
\nas a place to wait or to live, in slowly growing
\npiles of taxes forms phonecalls stock reductions
\nthe job the classroom the street the bedroom
\neverywhere will serve as the pit
\nThis pit is yours mine ours
\nit is a hole near this disease
\nit burrows through so many
\nI live on the edge of it
\nhaving brought you here
\nnot willingly but because
\nyou love me and would come
\nwe have built our hut here
\nwhere we did not ask to come
\nwe live, anticipate, here waiting for
\nthe edge to crumble capriciously
\nas it does for some not all
\nwe hear the earth tremble
\nand breathe a little easier
\nas each tremor passes.
\nOh how I love you and hate my<\/p>\n
Sh!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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