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Thoughts While Watching the News

As the tensions build between Israel and Gaza, I try my hand at some stream of consciousness style writing...

Posted Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:18 am ET|Updated Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:58 pm ET

Scribble on scrawl, breath upon word upon breath upon word,

Wasted

As our fragile – no, frail – no, brittle world

Threatens to implode

Or shred

Or simply unravel.

Ages and ancients collide in the sands of time, the sands of life

And how can we know? How can we see what they see, when they see it all, when time and space thrash and simmer, meld

To the boiling point

And erupt.

And the watchers wait.

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