Breezy and Sunny

Breezy, sunny afternoon in Florida
not so far from chilly, snowy temperatures
just up the road a piece, as Grandma Polly
might have said. And just across the ocean
civil wars are fought and children made to
kill and do the dirty work of captors who
have turned them into animals. And you
are sitting safely in your home, the TV on,
and so you have no notion that the
neighbor to the side of you is hurting.
You have no time for that, or even for
the news because a game is on, and you
must close the drapes to fix the glare.
And up the road a piece, they're praying
for the sun to peak through all the gray
and tired of sitting in the house with
nothing much to do because the weather
is so bad. And over there where life
is really rough, the children hope to
simply be alive when all the stars come out.



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014