All This Is That: Poem: The Curtain

Sunday, May 08, 2016

Poem: The Curtain

By Jack Brummet

There are pockets of sanity

still scattered among us,

and light years between those
shining seas of tranquility.

The task we face
is keeping the tiller

aimed away from
the sea of madness,

the silver rain
drawn like a curtain

between us
and God.

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