With rue my heart is laden

Author: Kramer Wetzel Published: May 25, 2022

With rue my heart is laden

With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.

A.E. Housman

Sutherland Springs, TX church shooting
Santa Fe, TX high school shooting
El Paso, TX Walmart shooting

Uvalde, Texas signage. Eerily prescient?

About the author: Born and raised in a small town in East Texas, Kramer Wetzel spent years honing his craft in a trailer park in South Austin. He hates writing about himself in third person. More at KramerWetzel.com.

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