Try To Engage

Try to Engage By Uriah Lee Hamilton If I walk out into the midnight wintry mist, I'll smile beneath streetlights, and try to engage with homeless saints meandering purposelessly through the cold of survival existence. Lights gleam from cars on the watery streets in mystical patterns for those who believe the universe is trying to be calm and sweet towards her myriad children praying in dialects of radio signals and emergency sirens of rescue. No one wants to die even when living is a difficult and prolonged nightmare of alienated realities absent embraces from cherished and long-desired faces impossible to reconnect with at the lonely and fragile present hour. 1: 50 AM 12-16-2024