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Youth Interrupted

Like the delicate tumble of a dried leaf
On a soft, fragile mound of earth
The passing away of an old man
Inscribes no scar
A poignant sigh. Silence. Finally, peace.

When a young man gives up the ghost
It is like a boulder descending
On a floor made of fragile glass
The scattered splinters carve
terrible wounds beyond closure
Pleading for reason that won’t show itself

No one recovers from the sorrow
Not even time itself
It will haunt the future
Forced to remember, to cry the tears of old
To echo the questions of a devastated age
To dread the reprise of a bewildering fate

Is it nature’s revenge when time’s course
Is stopped while at its journey’s peak?

(Written on Che Guevara's death anniversary,2005)

poem by Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot
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