What a Day it Was

and what a day it was.

an old man in white visited a black man,

the most powerful man in the world

who watches helplessly as 

the pictures roll across the screen,

a man desperately gripping his children as the rubber dingy

flips away from them,

a lone tree in Croatia offered shade to a crowd

of suffering migrants,

a man talking to a hippopotamus

and a baby swaddled in a snowsuit

in summer,

peacefully sleeping in the 

middle of a gymnasium 

somewhere in the world.

what a day it was.