Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Who Would Have Listened? (poem)
Who Would Have Listened?
It wasn’t enough
that it happened,
that our bodies
were torn
by a joy so
deep it
could not be translated,
not even a Biblical
utterance
could have captured
an event
of such proportions,
so rare
as to be
utterly indefinable,
there was no one
to listen,
and besides,
who would have believed
such a story
so unlikely,
vastly improbable,
like a myth
or a hero’s false tale?
Dorothy Walters
February 11, 2007
It wasn’t enough
that it happened,
that our bodies
were torn
by a joy so
deep it
could not be translated,
not even a Biblical
utterance
could have captured
an event
of such proportions,
so rare
as to be
utterly indefinable,
there was no one
to listen,
and besides,
who would have believed
such a story
so unlikely,
vastly improbable,
like a myth
or a hero’s false tale?
Dorothy Walters
February 11, 2007
