Poem: Don't Look Up

 

Don’t Look Up

 

scars

we callously refer to as craters.

 

we see green cheese,

or a wispy goddess-nymph,

 

but never a face beaten black and blue,

a cosmic timeline of knuckles. 

 

we don’t see punch marks,

someone broken, a person ignored,

 

someone who has yet to attain

their moment in the sky.

no.

we prefer sparkles silvering on the sea.

we lift our gaze to proclaim 

echelons of angels,

 

and smile.

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Title comes from a movie on a similar topic of denialism.