World Seeing Blind

World Seeing Blind

Unfathomable vast arrays
Reality’s artful veneer
All my eyes have seen

Never have they seen love
Genuine and true
In every way as solid
As me or you

My eyes filled they are by
Hearts weighed down
Measured and cut
Sizes too small
Filled by poisons foul
All encompassing ooze of decay

My eyes red tears they drop
Upon our land we cut and chop
Divvied out from hand to hand to starving mouth
Our metal cruelty cutting children from parents
To orphans turned
To families burned
To nations churning
Gleaming missiles long

My eyes blinded they were
By blood bought peace
Apathetic comforts
A foggy haze of baffled ignorance
Vague ill-thought isolated
Semblances of security
Illusions bought and sold
Souls lost at what cost?


At what cost?