slowly attitudes cure and

the unspeakable becomes

the subject of debate, thus

with such precious oxygen, 

opinions begin to flourish, 

take flight and become 

forthright possibilities,

which harden into options, 

the foot soldiers of choice 

and before long we are

locked in a war of words,

choices like human beings

present in many different 

guises, speak myriad tongues

mostly predicated on the living,

common civility plunges

as we begin to consider the dying

 

© Graham R Sherwood 11/24