Dead Letter Office - Rafael Jesus Gonzalez

[Larry Robinson]

Dead Letter Office

They say a scrivener 
went mad from years of working 
in the dead letter office, 
that undelivered love letter,
broken hearts; the bank note, 
a starving child; those words 
of hope, of condolence, of solace 
forever sealed, unread, cut short
weighed on his heart, his mind
What lives did they cost,
those letters dead, undelivered?
May not a destination be a destiny?
When ballots are not delivered 
could not a democracy be destroyed, 
    a tyranny assured?
In a dead letter office
a scrivener lost his mind;
in a dead letter office
a country can lose its liberty.

	- Rafael Jesus Gonzalez