"FACINGFACES 2002 - 04" SELECTED POETRY

FACING FACES

ciudad sin luz,
1-22-'01 marked you
when narcotraficantes
scarred another daughter.

her muffled screams
went unnoticed
tumbling from speeding car
and childhood.

times of unconcern and apathy
are torn from every face,
from every thought,
from now on.

juárez's of the world,
your janeths cry out;
terror looks from pleading windows.
blindness makes it so.

averted faces and eyes strangle
as surely as guilty hands,
the light and innocence of our young
until faces turn from shadows.


jim "max" christ
USA
copyright 2002