Poem: What Can Be Done?

What Can Be Done?

It is too late

to make it right

or even better:

it is done,

has already been,

and always

that will be

what happened,

but to do nothing

would be no good,

not when there is such fault,

when it is clear

harm was done,

but nothing can be made right

and to do anything

that does not address

the inflicted harm

would be an insult,

as would doing nothing.

Something must be done

but there is nothing that can be,

nothing that means anything.

The act is only to address the guilt,

to feel better about what was done:

it will not heal the wound,

those who were harmed

will not be granted relief

or made to belive it is any better.