Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Listen

What do we know as the eternity rains downward?
how many people will die in our ignorance?
tell us a remembrance, something that is new
make it something the youth of the world can share
for our lines are being drawn in the sand
our vision is weaker than we had hoped
but we can still hear the bombs and the gunfire
and the innocents as they sleep in their beds
But it is like this in all places in the world
there is no place to run to safety
until we hear the message, the cries, the burning
what do we understand after a plague of locusts
we have prepared to offer up our first-born sons
a fair exchange for our years of blindness
do we give this anger to our opponents
or do we save it for the next great battle
no more pretty pictures, only our resolve
to keep ourselves safe and listen for the message

something only the quiet can hear

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