artwork: ralph murre
Since we are not
heroes
by
Gary C. Busha
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the events
of
another crisis
while
we sit
in
the driveway
of
our moment
and
we know
the
present age
is
not magnificent.
An
evening of stitches
sew
our unheroic era as we
sink
in our armchairs
like
knights in quagmire
not
heroic in battles
fought
against epic odds
and
we languish
not
from mortal wounds
but
from fatigue.
~
previously published in The Skeptic (Wolfsong
Publications)
