Poetry Where You Live: a fatal flaw from the beginning

a fatal flaw from the beginning – v3

rot in the foundation, the sill,

the stones that they placed there

the mahogany church’s structure;

poison in the batter, the recipe,

in the coming together, the union;

a false sense of harmony

when the rift was already present;

a fatal flaw from the beginning

just waiting to explode.

a fatal flaw from the beginning

the die cast before they began

a crack in the communion chalice

a pulled thread in the tapestry;

schism, division, papered over

so soon to find light, oxygen

to be written into the contract

so long left unanswered, unresolve,

a festering wound unhealed.

ancient divisions exacerbated

a sea change in the wider culture

divorce painful but needed for so long;

now is the time for separation, for a parting,

for the truth to be lived out in the open

the crack widening, the seam ripped

a schism already started

comity wearing out, tension,

a need for a new day.

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edited June 2, 2021

a fatal flaw at the beginning – v2

June 1, 2021

a fatal flaw from the beginning

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