Dreams Dashed
of Desired Destination
We’ll now never get There from Here
As if there had been
a Chance
of anything other than
Here
in the first place.
Since There can’t get Here
Perhaps we could go
with you now
to the Someplace
You wanted us to Become?
Instead,
Hopes are crushed
in cruel climax
as the blades of a
cruel
religious
regime
hack at our hands
as we cling
to the gear
of a far-flying transport
for which
we weren’t given a ticket.
defying atrophy 