Marathon - Some Thoughts...

Note:  I didn't feel much like writing - putting form to feeling seemed somehow a sacrilege of what I am not certain - but I found that I more than likely will not sleep unless I get some thoughts out responding to the horrific attack on innocents yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts USA. I apologize in advance for the indulgence of sharing this raw material. I am sure that many others feel the same. 

All a marathon

From first step

To final

All the middle

The Marathon

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Little One at the Marathon    

The little one

Twirled

Smiled up

At hoards of

Knees stretching

Reaching on tiptoe

To see

The Marathon

But all she could

See was people

People watching

People running

Down the street

Until a boom louder

Than the thunder

That shook her heart

On dark rainy nights

And then everybody

Was running

And even grownups

Were screaming

Rudely loud

And in the bright sunshine

There people fell down

And laid on the pavement

Bleeding

And helping people

Were running the other

Way

Looking for

The Marathon

She guessed she had

Missed it after all

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Run

They Run

Proverbial pounding feet

Trembling the pavement

They Run

In joy

Finally there on that sunshined street

They run

In solidarity

Communing with one objective

They run

In isolation

Focused on that finish line

They run

In vicarious admiration

Beaming from the sidelines

They run

For those already gone

And others struggling to remain

They Run

Together as on another

blue split-skied day

ripped by unnatural thunder

fogged in smoke and screams

and fragments of flesh

They Run

Toward, or away from fallen

double devices too like towers

Tumbling

peace

blood pounding

in ears into the thronged

marathon survival

They Run

with pounding feet

and hearts

as one together

toward those in need

away past those bleeding

the pavement red

They run

together

But for

the silent still three

Who

Run

no more

the silent still three

reaching the end

of their unraveled

ribboned finish line

Somewhere there

melted into human

form  

there

are one

or two

or more

who know

why