While Watching the World
For Kayleigh Fraser's Microfiction Challenge
While watching the world tear itself apart at the seams -
our parties, creeds, rights, claims
splitting feeble threads binding family, friends, fellow humans -
while demanding that others wake up, shape up, grow up -
I wonder if we ought to instead admit that we are all still children.
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NOTE: This was written for Kayleigh Fraser's wonderful "Story of Humanity" Microfiction challenge. I admit that I leaned more into a poetic style than a microfiction, per se...but she did say we could interpret and respond to the prompt however we felt best. So thanks for reading! Cheers everyone :)
About the Creator
Gabriel Huizenga
Twas for love of words that I first joined this site:
Poetry, especially, and dear short stories too;
For to live one's best is to read, and to write!
So find me in words here, and I'll find you 💙
Thanks for stopping by! :)
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