Poem in memory of Daniel Pearl

[pax]

Feedback appreciated.

"Daniel"

I can?t get Daniel out of my head.
Dead now, the State Department says?
another casualty, another candle, another
pregnant woman who will birth
a dead man?s child. Daniel, I saw you?

saw you in the same pictures everyone
has seen, your wrists chained, head down,
a gun in a foreign hand at your
temple. It?s enough to make anyone
xenophobic. Daniel, did you get scared?

Did they let you sleep? Did they
feed you? Having heard about the alleged goings-on
at Guantanamo Bay, did they decide to enact
their own Geneva Convention on your
innocent frame? What warning was your death?

I imagine when they killed you
that somehow you were in France, handsome
and hopeful again in the wedding pictures
we saw in Newsweek. I will pray
for Mariane, and stay out of journalism.

Still I can?t get Daniel out of my head.
If they would slit the throat of this bespectacled,
by-all-accounts harmless man who only
wanted a story, the other shoe is sure
to drop. Someone keep an eye on Billy Collins.




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If you cannot live together in here, you cannot live together out there, let me tell ya. --Bono

You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice... --Bono

 

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[scatteroflight]

Originally posted by paxetaurora:


I imagine when they killed you
that somehow you were in France, handsome
and hopeful again in the wedding pictures
we saw in Newsweek. I will pray
for Mariane, and stay out of journalism.

I don't know a lot about this man, but for some reason I feel he would have liked and appreciated this poem.



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Your sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars
Carved into stone on the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes

 

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[Screaming Flower]

thank you for sharing this with us.

 

[pax]

Thank you. I really needed to get that out of me.

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If you cannot live together in here, you cannot live together out there, let me tell ya. --Bono

You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice... --Bono