summery torment

the outlines of this message are so clear

to those who wait to hear it at the door

of heavy summer there is so much more

that we will need coming across the air

the loudest want us all to be aware

of sacrifice and that since they abhor

all urgent pain they will remove the sore

by drastic means while stating they are fair

what was unknown turns out to be just brief

exploding anguish on the tainted scene

a sign perhaps of animating spark

or else the voice of one more human's grief

at what has turned into a might-have-been

and gone away like all else into dark