Video

poem by: John Prophet
Written on Aug 21, 2018 

I saw 
a women
in a
video.
She was
old
walking slowly.
The Video
was seventy
years old.
It was made
in Berlin
after the war.
Smashed buildings 
everywhere,
smashed 
lives too.
Where she
was headed,
I had no 
idea.
But that
moment
for her,
was just
as focused
as this
moment for
me 
as I’m typing 
these 
words.
How fleeting 
it all be.

 

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