I Saw Love Today

Driving in my truck
I saw love today
bright red letters
fancy grafitti
written on a wall
it said
"all you need is love"
and as I went around
the corner
there they were
her hair gone to
winter's gray
striking a
pose long and
tall against the
lamppost
him concentrating
on getting the shot
his hair in the same
realm of winter
as it escaped his
fine cap perhaps
longing
for younger days
and it was his face
that caught me
the sheer adoration
as he looked up at her
and back down
to the viewfinder
working on that
perfect shot that
would forever
frame the love that
he saw though its lens
she smiled back at
him with that glow
that would make
you walk barefoot
through snow
if a woman ever looked
at you like that
and then they were
gone...
I saw love today


Romo (c) November 2011

Troy Davis was executed yesterday, despite 7 of the original witnesses recanting AND another person confessing to the crime.

According to Amensty International over 130 people have been freed from Death Row after evidence of their innocence was proven. How many innocent people have already been murdered by the Death Penalty? And when the case is incontrovertible - a smoking gun in their hand such as the guilt of Lawerence Russell Brewer (who was also executed yesterday) for the killing of James Byrd Jr., is the state's murder of the transgressor any better than the original murder? Is it truly justice when we continue to risk killing the innocent in hopes of getting the guilty?

The U.S. carries out more executions than any other liberal democracy in the world. In the "Americas", (this includes North and South and the Eastern Caribbean) only one country carried out death penalty executions in 2010 and that was the U.S. with a total of 46.

"We have met the enemy and he is us"