Now that's a lesson if I have read one! I think you've nailed how to live in one short poem. Let us hope that no one ever has to face the reality of the first stanza. But I believe, many already have when they went to their death without the promises they were told.
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
(Self-published. Please contact author directly to order.)
Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
Ron
You are the cause of this, you know,
each man his prison brings about.
So true yet still needs to be said.
Love ya!
Jane