Requiem

28 May 2022

·Jaybird

Nineteen babies float in the air, nineteen angels unaware, there is no bad man with a gun, only silence, your day is done. He has gone his way, now you go yours, where puppies’ tails wag and a kitten purrs, where there is no fear only love, in a grand kingdom far above. Rest easy my dears, close your eyes, follow the man who never dies, in his bloodstained white robe He will guide you through to the place of peace where love is true. Rest easy go now goodnight.

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Jaybird

I am retired, having worked primarily as a librarian, but have done freelance proofreading, copy editing, and book reviewing. I wrote some poetry many years ago, but decided it was bad and stopped, since I had other things to do. For the last ten...

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