For The Fateful Poem by Madelene Calalo

If only it were possible..
to escape from disaster..
If only it were plausible..
not to go down deeper..

Deeper to the deepest
of all misfortunes...
Down to the severest
of all that's dreadful..

Dreadful it is to watch all their suffering
More dreadful it is that there 's nothing
else you can do... but to hope..
and stand to wait for them to have hope..

More hope....

Much more hope to abet them
to help them rise
from the treacherous marvels
of their miserable lives.

Oh, all those fateful souls
whose paths been knit with mayhem.
I pray for thee,
pleading for good luck. Amen...


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Written September 17,2009