AND YOU WILL
REMEMBER
Once.
There is, was
Nothing
Is, was
Nothing
At all
But the
Dead
Who
In their
Final moments
Their last
Breath were
Surrounded
By panic
And fear
Politics
And despair
Struggling
To live
To survive
Unable
To scream
Where black
Orange &
Yellow
Bodybags
Lined the
Hospital
Hallways
Across nations
Across the world
Where
Photos, media
Flashed
Across giant
Internet screens
Confirming
Loss
And the
Doctors &
Nurses
Essential
Workers
Fought on
Some died
But there
Is, was no
Prayer
No anger
To a missing
God or a
Tyrant, the
Monster of all
Hate, lust & greed
Envy
And sloth
Who ?
With a
Casual smile upon
His face
Lived on
And we ?
The survivors
The angry
The broken
The hopeless
& the poor,
The weak
The powerless
The middle-class
And all the old
And all the young
Of the world
Did nothing.
We
Did nothing
We
Did nothing
We
Did nothing
“At All”
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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