my recurring dream

excerpts from Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”

photograph by A.B. Godfreed

All that you touch
you Change.

I dreamed a reminder
all a lie
little dependencies
often have things wrong with them
too bad
Mars is a rock
so what is God?
without anyone
scaring them
so much
attention to guns
unarmed people
get killed.