Nightly News by mythsteps published on 2024-02-29T22:45:26Z NIGHTLY NEWS I am wounded. And so is this world: I hear my pain repeated on the nightly news. Whether those at the horn use cool reason or scold and threaten beneath their words I hear them plead: How can we end all this wounding? How can we heal all these wounds? I believe we all mourn our failure: even those who celebrate the wounding they do— they bellow and sing to bury the cry of grief within. Sometimes I tire of trying to heal this wound— I ask myself: Why not sleep until death wakes you? But then I hear the wounds of the world again weeping on the nightly news. Genre poetry