Try To Engage Poem by Uriah Hamilton

Try to Engage

By Uriah Lee Hamilton


If I walk out into the midnight wintry mist,
I'll smile beneath streetlights,
and try to engage with homeless saints
meandering purposelessly
through the cold of survival existence.

Lights gleam from cars on the watery streets
in mystical patterns for those who believe
the universe is trying to be calm and sweet
towards her myriad children praying in dialects
of radio signals and emergency sirens of rescue.

No one wants to die even when living
is a difficult and prolonged nightmare
of alienated realities absent embraces
from cherished and long-desired faces
impossible to reconnect with at the lonely
and fragile present hour.

1: 50 AM 12-16-2024