Peder
Well-Known Member
Sacred Rite
They come from all over slowly
ones and threes converging
getting thicker slowly determinedly
as if candle bearing they might
but aren't thoughtfully trudging
reverently striding forcefully solitary
or sharing with companions
pleasantries greetings news
of the day children's school
drawings focused on their
thoughts or worries hopes
despair wishing content angry
for more or termination
here and now for evermore
to stand in lines of knots of
individuals calmly all sorts
not arguing not jostling each other
drifting in their own reflecting space
for once a peaceable humanity
forward to the table then the booth
to pull the lever in reverence
or give a yank let them know
or register hope for a future
with personal meaning and then
dispersing fanning out through an
exit back to life humdrum or
exciting feeling holding hoarding
one's own flame of knowing
one has participated again
in the solemn Rite
of Election.
crp 8/27/2019
They come from all over slowly
ones and threes converging
getting thicker slowly determinedly
as if candle bearing they might
but aren't thoughtfully trudging
reverently striding forcefully solitary
or sharing with companions
pleasantries greetings news
of the day children's school
drawings focused on their
thoughts or worries hopes
despair wishing content angry
for more or termination
here and now for evermore
to stand in lines of knots of
individuals calmly all sorts
not arguing not jostling each other
drifting in their own reflecting space
for once a peaceable humanity
forward to the table then the booth
to pull the lever in reverence
or give a yank let them know
or register hope for a future
with personal meaning and then
dispersing fanning out through an
exit back to life humdrum or
exciting feeling holding hoarding
one's own flame of knowing
one has participated again
in the solemn Rite
of Election.
crp 8/27/2019