We are all hostages.
bound by screens 24/7
of hateful acts and sorrowing loss
entertained by relief
it is not we
who suffer it all.
Yet, we do.
We only know if we stop
long enough to sense our loss
of innocence and trust
and thus
we hurry along from screen to screen
and from scene to scene
until there is not time
to reason and rhyme
the truth we cannot allow
ourselves to realize
we are the prize
captured by those who control
what we see
and what we know.
annarino writes 