Center of Darkness
Ignore his voice at your own peril.
Though seemingly vacuous,
know that it is meant to pull us
into the darkness
he would have surround us.
The base emotions of fear and greed,
the center of his own darkness,
would be the law of the land
should enough fall for his appeal.
Stand against that voice,
that wall with a blackness
greater than any thicket,
more a forest dark
where blood runs thin
and none are expected
to find kinship in diversity.
This my first attempt to meet the prompt for Jilly’s Days of Unreason Challenge – here Day #23 – which offers this quote from Jim Harrison:
“His mind’s all black thickets and blood” from Songs of Unreason.
Image source: gocomics.com (© Jim Morin, Miami Herald)
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Well, you have certainly nailed your colours to the mast. Well done!
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Thank you. 😉
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powerful,,,”The base emotions of fear and greed/ the center of his own darkness,/
would be the law of the land” is very perceptive.
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Thank you.
2+ more years is a long time. I hate to see what else he has to show us.
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;-0
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🙂
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Well done, Ken. I immediately thought of him when I first saw the quotation.
It upsets me that so many people still support him.
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Thank you, Merril.
And now he wants to deport without due process. It never ends.
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It is a nightmare, Ken.
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Wow, interesting take on the prompt! Looks like it connected verybdirectly for you.
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Daily.
The alternative is to avoid the news.
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You described his darkness completely! Good job!
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Thank you, Vivian.
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a perfect analogy (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe.
If only things were different.
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I think we all wish…
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It’s that man again… He’s certainly tapped into a base layer of nastiness.
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Sigh.
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Oh, well done. Powerful caution . . .
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Thank you.
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