Secret Knells

Cry!

Cry all!

Raise your voices

Cry! 

Show us your injuries

Your broken bones

Your bruised spirits

Cry!

Show us your falls

your broken hands

your hidden damage

Cry!

So the world might hear

Cry!

So we may listen

and help end this

tragedy with you

For Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

The prompt was not restrictive so I wrote what came.  

I think the repetition of Cry is a wake up bell.

I am not a victim of domestic violence but know many who are and have been.  

Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Burial

In the past we busted ass
To dig that six foot hole
No more no less
The depth was blessed
Laws said
It must be so

My father feared
Being buried alive
I almost put a bell
In his hand so he
Would know I
Listened for the knell

No embalming
No pre-view of death
No stones were piled
Upon the grave
To keep
Wild animals away

For in the past
Graves didn't last
High waters
Wild animals
Construction
All took away

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
I think in death
We may discover
It's not an ending
Simply an Other