executive action

(october 10, 2019)

a child screams
nightmares enter dreams
an age-old tale retold

refugees–
women
children
the old

geopolitical ideology
bizarrely twisted with mythology
creates an opportunity
for some to flee
so others can be free

a child’s scream
nightmare filled dreams
refugees—
women
children
the old

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.