Holy Innocents.
Innocentes pro Christo
primitiae Deo, et Agno -
not fruits of the harvest, but
fruits of the season's hope and promise.
First fruits sacrificed on the altars of
the grief-hot hearts of new motherhood, abrupted.
The raging selfishness of the tyrant
still rages on, sees a threat that is no threat
still sees others as obstacles or objects only
still spawns erratic fear and blinding obsession
still boils in the veins
still sacrifices the simple, the innocent,
on the self-turned hearts of new motherhood, aborted.