From my subway car
I saw a hillside with several felled trees
They were just lying there
Useless
It made me think of the lives of young men
lost
Unfulfilled
Tupac first came to mind
But there are so many others
Young men who died too young
Lives taken by violence or drugs
Young men whose lives should have stretched out before them
long limbed and agile
Lives that should have spread way into the future
Lives full of careers goals dreams
Instead they were cut down
into short useless pieces
I know that a life however short is never useless but sacred
still a short life is sad
trying to make sense out of premature and unnecessary deaths
trying to make sense of these beautiful felled trees
Artsy Wanderer 