A Song For Today

While the Angels Weep

The torn flesh and vacant eyes
No longer see the sky
No tears sully the blank stares
Bereft of souls no longer there
Life torn from the limbs
Like a fruit from its skin.
Where is the Billie
For our current times
So sweet a voice
Singing deftly tuned rhymes
About injustice
Hatred abounding
Salty tears flowing
While hearts are pounding
With a knowledge so shameful
And grim
For each life torn
From its God-given limbs
Murder is the order of every war
Each era’s demanding price
To settle the score
Contraception
Made big and grim
With each soul torn
From the dangling
Flaccid limbs
Hanging jaws and withered flesh
Bulging eyes staring
Straight into Death
Bombs as sure now
As lynchings were then
For removing the life
From human limbs
Where is there a peace untold
For all of us to have and hold
A marriage of minds and hearts
And souls
When will ignorance and hatred finally fail
Taking its toll from the weak and frail
Hopeless actions, torn universe and time
A tragic reality
Recorded in rhyme.