JUSTICE, MVT. II

October 13, 2019 / John Grimmett

In long hallways,
there is little conversation
and a western facing light
that creeps from doorway to doorway.

The people cannot bring themselves to speak.
There is only longing
in their silent stares,
music in wanting.

This weariness
happens in hospitals
and courthouses
and schools
and other places
(past, present, and future)

and it spares no one life
because somebody has to learn:
somebody has to carry the non-words
upon their shoulders
through long nights of thinking
and into tomorrow.

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