Remembering, One Week Later: “Let Our Hearts Fly”
My heart is still in Newtown today, one week later. May we remember the innocent children, the adults who tried to protect them, and the families they leave behind.
Let Our Hearts Fly
A cardinal
flashing red in the bare winter landscape
innocent of my intent
I missed my shot, my camera open to receive too much light
yet it was then that I heard
of the shooting of other innocent birds
on this brilliant morning
colorful plumage
melodic chatter
gathered in a trusted place
a flash of red
too many left behind
others holding hands
closing eyes to run.
No.
Please let it not be so.
For those who can no longer fly
let our hearts fly to be with them
flashing red in the brilliant and bare winter morning.
Poem © B.E. Kazmarski
I took this bad photo that morning, and wrote this poem a few hours later.
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Thank you, Bernadette, for sharing your beautiful poem. You have quite a gift with words!
Thank-you for this spark of light in the darkness. And that photo is not bad.
Layla, I’m glad I could put it to words. And the photo is only “not what I intended”, but there is a lesson in that as well.