LJIdol 10: Topic 7: Where I'm From

[lilmissmagic71]

LJ Idol 10: Topic 7: Where I'm From

Where I'm From

where I'm from

is under attack

not from without

imagined slights and hidden

terrors

but from within

where fear and hate

scrabble for footholds

and all good people

cry out

and the world

cries out with us

where before we shined

a beacon

now we walk in darkness

where once diversity

now division

where once

Comments

[marlawentmad]

I love the stripped down simplicity of this. I myself have been trying to figure out how to write about all that heaviness; I haven't gotten anywhere because there is so much to say I feel choked. This does something just beautiful. Thank you for writing it. I want to recommend you submit this to my group's podcast at TheMakeshiftPoets@gmail.com. My friend, Brandon, likes to read submissions for the minisodes, and then discuss them. I think this one
would be so relevant.

[sorchawench]

Ashes, ashes....we all fall down.

I feel ya.

[veronica_rich]

You and I both. Good use of spare form to get across a mood.

[adoptedwriter]

That part about leadership falling away...yeah...

[ryl]

I love how you used lowercase through the whole thing. It captures the fear and shock so many people are feeling.

greatness reduced
to petulance

So very true. That's the whole thing in a nutshell.