Friday, January 3, 2014

time for poetry 12: "Rainfall"


Rainfall

 

I had a bad day, there’s blood on my hands.

The many souls I lost become the crimson sands.

The rain must pour down and wash it all away.

Storm clouds closing in; tomorrows a brand new day.

 

The streets are filled with angry screams.

Gutters clogged with fallen dreams.

A man asks for food while his children die.

The government kills a Muslim child while the parents cry.

Trucks, planes, and military drones

Bury our friends in fire and bones.

 

What have they done?! These innocent souls.

Why should they have to pay OUR tolls?

Men in black flash the scenes,

A memory wiped, a conscience cleaned.

 

The cause for war is always the same.

Innocence dies in this accursed game.

 

Life and longing lost in lies.

The tears that run from within my eyes.

The rain must come and wash away.

Down the mountain the pain weaves and sways.

 

The horrors of sorrow…

There is no tomorrow…

 

Purest of hearts tainted with lust and greed.

Men of honor who have lost their creed.

The power of darkness consumes and breeds

Blinded by the light, how can we see?

 

The rain pours down in endless sheets.

Robbers and rapists steal and skeet.

 

The newly fallen snow is tainted with corruption

The new media craze is exploded in eruption.

Braided belts and fancy sheets

Are nothing but scapegoats and sheep.

The news we see filled with death and lies;

Criminal convicts with alibi’s.

 

A failed heath site; a thousand cry.

With no food or home; one million die.

You stand for nothing till you take your vows.

Nothing but actors in deliverance; now TAKE YOUR BOWS.

 

Blinded by the light, but I can see.

The truth around you and me.

 

The rain falls in sheets; it drowns the soul.

Try to climb out, it fills the bowl.

If innocent blood was shelter and food

We would all share the neighborhood.

 

But the rain pours down and cleans the heart.

Cleanses our souls and makes things right.

The pure liquid crystals that bring life and death.

A natural resource for which we fight.

Only one world yet we take without thought;

Let’s unite as one and end our plight.

 

Water to wine; wine to thrive

The innocent child killed in the drunken drive.

 

Economic disaster and smoking weed.

Animals dead, yet which one was freed?

Another act of senseless greed…..

 

When will we learn our lesson?

When will we accept our past?

Hiroshima, the holocaust, and American racism.

Why is it that our apologies seem just half-assed?

 

When will we accept our flaws and our tainted hearts?

When will the day come that we pop that tart?

When will we answer for our destruction and lies?

Mother earth gouged dead through her eyes.

We’ve raped our land with our metallic semen;

The day will come when karma gets even.

 

Yet the rain pours down; and washes everything away.

Starts the hope of a clean new day.

It cleanses our sins and makes love anew;

Gives me reason for loving you.

 

The rain makes it so easy to smile.

Staring up for miles and miles.

 

The clear liquid falling onto my face.

Brings me hope for this human race.

You go on and run ahead; I’ll catch up soon.

While the rain falls down underneath this full moon.

I will see you in heaven one way or another.

Goodnight moon; goodbye my brother.

 

The rain pours down; and washes away

All the sins we committed today.

Seeing them all dead, what could I say?

It’s time we simply ran away.

Our mothers love lives on within our hearts,

Our father’s fate torn apart,

The curse he created; finally gone,

All this they hear within our song.

 

Fate brought us together, fate tore us apart.

As long as we live; we will share one heart.

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