re⋅cip⋅ro⋅cal [ri-sip-ruh-kuhl] –adjective 1. given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
This poem is dedicated to all the mothers who have lost their children to the epidemic of street violence in our land.
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The Concrete's Reciprocal
The concrete, trampled on, broken, porous, and too-soon old
absorbing his red warmth, resisting the creeping cold
It was hallowed ground now, inscribed by a stain indelible
In a language, too much familiar, but still illegible
So routine a ritual, even the sun seemed to no longer care
And danced irreverently in the darkness of his unseeing stare
Until wolf-like in form, she mourned, primal and unbound
The woman who knelt, unashamed, on this, her holy ground
Sharp chords of her despair chastised, dismissed the careless air
Connecting with a remnant of his spirit silently waiting there
Joined again, as once they were by the life-giving umbilical
She arose from the inscribed concrete having become its reciprocal
If you died today, are you absolutely certain that you would go to heaven? You can be! TRUST JESUS NOW
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