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“You can't make something true just because you really want it to be.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are
Bag of Wind
Wind lifts a white plastic bag
and carries it with
bat-swift gusts from the street
to the branches of a tree.
The bag appears to be
moving on its own, breathing,
mimicking a
living creature.
An illusion. I think
about people fed
hot, even dangerous air,
led to follow the whims
of a narcissist who claims,
“I will be there,” words made of
vague promises. A breeze arrives
and lifts the bag to a sharp branch.
Misled followers leak air.
They blame enemy design.
I pray the truth saves all.
Before the tree dies.
poem originally published in For a Better World 2021
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