A Brighter Light



On this day in nineteen seventeen

One of the Brightest Lights'd be seen

The child born would grow up to be

The thirty-fifth president, and yet, he



Would be assassinated before he could

Make enough inroads to do any good ...

Although his three years at the helm

Dealt with some major dramas to come



Including the thwarted Cuban invasion

An exercise dark in the history of the nation

Which precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis

A stand-off which well might've ignited 



Plans to end the life which began today

In nineteen seventeen, at Brookline Bay

An area to the north of central Boston

Where John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

10:19pm Sat. May 29th, 1999