It seems my life is slipping away
The pull gets stronger day after day
How shall one decide which way to go
Is there a clue we have need to know
What has happened to ” home of the free ”
An example of true liberty ?
The chaos that reigns over our land
That used to be this nation so grand
Became a faction we have to chase
Hard as we may to change or erase
Whatever prayers that need to be said
Do say them now before we are dead !
There was a war long time ago
In places that we did not know
So many years now in our past
Proof of length that memories last.
Both young and old were forced to fight
Across the globe or out of sight
A war that simply parried on
Left none untouched here or beyond.
Now I am old but can recall
Those shadows cast upon my wall
With forgotten names that I’d known
Redemptions’ chance all but unknown.
Oh, someone should research this tale
Ere soon we shall completely fail !
REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR DAY
Who hears the sound of running feet
Our world reverberates defeat
While strangers view the failing trend
When will this anger ever end ?
How tired have we all become
With vision clear to only some ?
My passion washes down the drain
Promising no, not e’er again
The silence closes in once more
Too soon our Lord may bar the door !
Sometimes it’s hard to believe God sees
All the troubled souls upon their knees
Like those broken children still confined
To a system that’s both deaf and blind
And the hungry masses on the road
Have no one there to lighten the load.
Their dreams of glory shrivel and die
As the rest of the world passes by
While you and I don’t know what to do
Please help us Lord, we haven’t a clue !
As this old year draws slowly to its close
Unlike the phoenix which from ashes rose
May pass without a hint of shadow kind
To leave its taste of bitterness behind !
Why is this world so very blind
So anger filled and too unkind
A study that is worst of all
With joy when evil does befall ?
Is this the manner of our fate
And why our lives remain ingrate
Denied our human dignity
And bathed in man’s iniquity ?
What kind of life is left to us
Where God is deemed inglorious
How shallow is the purpose seen
It leaves this world without a dream !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 