Cleveland Cries For Joy

Rejoice! for though they were lost,
now they are found.

Three women rescued not by
knight in shining armor nor by long arm
of the law but just one chance man
(or more, depending on whose story
you believe) who heard their cries
and chose to get involved. A lesson
for us all to be more keen to odd things
that we see or hear or even
simply feel inside, gut instinct
that there's something wrong,
when patterns do not fit. And in the
meantime, learn the lesson of these
three and also of their families
that hope should never die.
The lesson for the men who held
them captive all these years,
in cruel bondage and despair should be
(if justice weren't so blind) a kind
of hell on earth, the taste of chains,
and periodic rapes by apes who share
declining level of morality.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight -- three names most of us would not have known at all, but for the quick actions and miraculous rescue this week from three trolls. I can't even bring myself to call them men, because no true man would behave that way.