
Messaging is lost
in modern safety
all shrill alarms
and shatterproof glass
as we cluster houses
one upon the other
regulated walls
in regulated lives
while within us
a madman screams
to raise the drawbridge
to fetch a sword
to fill the moats with snapping turtles
for safety is an army
and a stone castle on high ground
imposing and impenetrable
sending silent warnings to all – Caroline A. Slee