Angry Violets | Tina Rimbaldo

Angry ones

White corridors hide the secrets once stored in your mind
as the only silent witness who saw it all
from Alpha to Omega.

White marble slabs broke down
under the heavy steps of the angry ones
could not stop the pain,
nothing was ever the same,
tell me who is to blame?

Oh how sad it is…
Oh how they miss…
even after all these years,
fear still sleeps near.

Finding the sane reason in the senseless crime
is the hardest task…
So we should not ask…

WHY???

So many words left unspoken
from the lives that were taken,
13 Teardrops,
13 blood drops,
falling down to feed the roses on 13 Graves,
but where are the 2 more who lost themselves?
What happened to their souls torments us all…

Lord, do You know how to mend our hearts
from all the brokenness?
Please tell me you saved them all
that no one was lost in the infamous lake of fire.

I’m offering you my strong embrace
to protect you, to save you from yourself.

Oh if only I could….
Oh if only I could stop you now….
once and for all…

IT MUST STOP NOW…ABUSE MUST END,
IN ORDER FOR HUMANS TO CREATE, A HAPPY LAND!

It starts with violets,
it ends with violence.

I command, let the ashes settle on your gun-holding hands,
Drop it!
Stop it! 
Awake your Sleeping Beauty called—Empathy.
Let the love mend our gory wound.
What has started with violets, must not end with violence!

Raven and Gun
©2023 Tina Rimbaldo
photograph

Martina (Tina) Rimbaldo…

…lives and works in Croatia. She always carries a pen and a notebook in her purse in case of sudden inspiration, in order to write it down. Her work is published in Nightingale & Sparrow, Oddball Magazine, The Sage Cigarette Magazine, Spillwords.com, Thruly You, The Street Light Press, Six Word Stories, Poems, and Poezija noći websites; her artwork is published at the weekly blog of Royal Rose Magazine; and her photographs are published in Bleached Butterfly and Anti Heroin Chic. She loves to paint abstract paintings, read religious books, and watch horror, as well as old movies with Audrey Hepburn, Sharon Tate, Brigitte Bardot (who happens to share her birth date). She (over)thinks, especially about death, which some people find morbid, but she does not; it is a part of life, too. Her goal is to be a good person.