i’m not the one to sound alarms
when there’s not an emergency,
when nothing ’round me would cause harm
or initiate urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a crash, a boom, a slam, a bang,
the explosion of someone’s voice
can leave me grasping for somebody
to give me another choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it’s all at once, it’s always been,
and i know it always will be,
but every time i think of this
i wonder how this world is free<\/p>\n\n\n\n
since i’m not made to handle things
of multitude, for i am just
a person with a complex mind
of particles that come from dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and who really isn’t just that?
is anybody else around
to witness nature’s caveat,
the deaf’ning, overwhelming sound?
because i know i’m not alone,
but it truly does seem like so
when i go in search of my own
and all i get is told to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so what to do in such a state?
a person who is nothing but
as moved and living as the late
can only pull their eyes closed shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
unless, of course, there was a hand
to hold and have and know and pass
through all the hurt and turmoil that
come with this life, this knowing path<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of crashes, booms and slams and bangs,
of letting that heaviness hang,
of knowing even on your own
you’ll never truly alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
emergency! emergency!<\/strong> i’m not the one to sound alarmswhen there’s not an emergency,when nothing ’round me would cause harm or initiate urgency. a crash, a boom, a slam, a bang,the explosion of someone’s voicecan leave me grasping for somebodyto give me another choice. it’s all at once, it’s always been,and i know it always will be,but every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":27180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334,1],"tags":[776,2165,281,15,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27300,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions\/27300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
a social peril, a dire need
to be together, joined at once,
to fight the good fight attonce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"