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A Poem about Inequality and INjustice... |
~* A Siren's Lullaby*~ Softly but surely heavy feet greet the earth Eyes graze the trail ahead, lacking all mirth Numb are the senses to the breeze in the air When eyes, lips and ears have collided with despair With each step forward, a memory forces back As a mind tries to distinguish between lie and fact Unjust is each old and new page of history As one after the other is unable to depict reality Feathers fall as all eyes somberly gaze above Tears pour down from a wounded white dove Enraged are the invisible blackened skies Arduous to visualize the next clear sunrise Across torn lands and beaten souls From each like a Siren a lullaby unfolds Little eyes curious of the story she knows As white crystals break from her eyes, her rhyme goes: ‘Sleep little ones, it is not yet time But I’ll tell of a story, and to the first I’ll give a dime Close your eyes, o, dream of yellow and green Yes, smile, do hold on to the beauty you’ve seen ‘Tune out the screams, the heart aching cries Listen to your mind’s own fantasies and lullabies Should the grounds lurch you forward, have no fear ‘Tis only the effect of my drawing you near… There was once a boy who owned vast lands Who’d never known their worth, for them had no plans And like the eagle’s swiftness upon capturing his prey Some then more, were able to seize them their way… Try as he might to correct his mistakes Racing in all directions, to get a piece of his cake And then to run in his lands, became an access denied An us and them, between humans a miserable red divide Oh the thousand and one times he had cried in ache When the hands of mercilessness on his life would strain To brothers so dear, so near, so …distant Had been vowing their best, but were gone in an instant They were seen as complacent, apathetic, and full of greed Visible when it was time to fulfill a dire need But blame them not, for each had plagues of their own A mask of contentment for so long each had donned… One had riches the Insiders could not compare Some were envious, some would ask to share And the Outsiders of course could not idly stand Whatever it’d take, they’d see to fill each hand He finally became reliant on the Outsiders too much Upon that realization, too strong was the clutch He thought he’d be fine, suffer no great deal Until their troubles hit him, knocking him head over heel The other was determined to live life in peace Wanted serenity, a mind at complete ease Riches of another kind filled his land For truth and loyalty would obey every command But to invest in them his attempts were undermined By some who feared they’d no longer continue to rise And so gone to waste, the riches with no use And slipped did loyalty for righteousness and truth ‘ Make no mistake when these riches are combined Could unsettle grounds and face the strongest of tides But each brother in his own wretchedness he cannot wake Unable to see the wrongful steps he shall undertake Each is not attuned to the sorrow of his lands That cripples their bodies to unite and band The agonies of stomachs, the cries of insecurity Diseases, massacres, and infant mortality Can they ever taste the rain, that tastes of fire? Or hear children in various pains, their cries rising higher? Or smell the air that for some is a deadly feat Can they imagine bodies once known lain at their feet? How much can hearts swallow of black and grey? How do the brothers sleep at night, for what do they pray? There can exist no dark without a speck of light But so it remains, upon grasp will the time be right? Do not trouble yourselves, my dearest dears He who hath created all can hear the drops of our tears If they cannot give us the life they are responsible for Sleep as you do now..in Eden we shall have more…..’ The grounds shake with vengeance as the children sleep Her eyelids close, her last breath she draws in deep Where they once lay, in mere seconds, they were no more A page in history that will never be accounted for… ____________________________Copyright Reem S. 2009____________________________ |