A Passing View
Outside it is cold, and I am weeping.
The cameras near as I pound the cobblestones with clenched fists.
My mother is dead: There were no doctors to save her from the tumour which consumed her leg, then her life.
My father is dead: At thirty, he appeared fifty, and at fifty, he seemed one-hundred.
My brother is lost: It is easier to think of him as only missing, although there are few doubts as to his fate.
Winter has come, and the Great Leader is gone.
Inside I am warm, and there is laughter.
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Excellent! I was hoping you would post this.
Thanks, Joe!
I hate edging into pretentiousness, but the mass weeping seemed like it needed to be addressed.
I read it first as an email notification, and loved it as prose-poetry but to see it with the photos and in context, there is nothing pretentious here. Not one iota (and I know iotas)
Many thanks, AMMI. Part of my inspiration was reading NK Leadership Watch.