Rage, rage against the coming storm
Its days are here before too long
Look to the sky, approaching morn
Ere their currents become too strong.
The times are changing oh, so fast
As all our values soon get lost
Into one role they shall be cast
With no way left to count the cost !
What is this sound falls on my ears
It is the echo of our fears
There’s no recourse, we cannot wait
Barbarians are at the gate !
Oh wayward star where have you been
What kind of world are you lost in
The road is slick, the path is steep
Where is the vision that you seek ?
The night is long and lost in dark
While all about is drear and stark
The mist seeps through the window pane
Engendering a new refrain
Oh Lord, be kind, help us to see
Life’s face of virtuosity !
The earth it rumbles, the mountain quakes
The land around it shivers and shakes
The air is silent and seems intense
With no place left for one’s own defense.
The bells ring out, hear the warnings toll
The world now plays a dangerous role
While the lives of those who mill about
Are filled with fear and tremble with doubt
Pray nature’s fury spares all our lives
With God’s help His compassion survives !
What madness does this world possess
That causes all such great distress
What petty nonsense fills our days
We’re sure is nourished by malaise ?
For eons we’ve endured the pain
And fought evil most times in vain
This has become the earth’s sad scourge
There’s no more action one may urge.
Now we are here with shattered dreams
Leftover tears and useless schemes
The best there is, it’s all we’ve got
With chances to succeed or not !
Now I have seen the mighty mountain and heard the restless sea
There is no greater image that my old heart may bring to me
For I am not a stranger adrift upon some foreign shore
But a native born who sees trouble that’s coming soon and more.
I pray that we acknowledge that our future holds great danger
We forgot how times are changed ere we welcomed in the stranger
And so it is that now we are prepared as we must need be
To keep our homeland safe and from all its enemies be free !
At times life hangs upon a thread
Or teeters on a word unsaid
Tense moments caught before a scene
Or shouted words just too obscene,
Who knows what happens in a flash
Or what may cause a fatal crash ?
Tis smart to always take great care
Be conscious of what, when or where
For life comes with no guarantee
Take time to think, wait, watch and see !
See all the pieces on the ground
What is this image we have found
The damaged parts of each lost soul
All crumpled bare without a goal.
Now where did all of this begin
From far away or quite close in
For this is what a war will do
Tear all apart that once were two
A war is such a vengeful thing
And wears no peace upon its wing !
The trumpets sound, drums beat away
The voices have so much to say
Is this the future soon to come
What is it we are fleeing from ?
Is there some place that we may hide
From all the fears we’ve deep inside
Pick up the pieces, stand up tall
Let’s learn to walk before we fall !
When I awoke this early morn
I thought about when I was born
It was the Great Depression clime
To most it was like world’s end time.
Who could have thought that we’d survive
Or that this world would soon revive
While clouds spread over seas and lands
Deserted towns and dust bowl sands.
Too few are left who yet recall
The poverty which did befall
With angst and agonies we knew
Like pain and failures we’ve come through.
We pray that era won’t return
There are great lessons we did learn
You must not hide your eyes in sleep
The danger grows both close and deep !
Mary, Mary, where have you been
What trouble is it you are in
Is your snow white lamb lost once more
Could he be waiting at the door ?
You need to be so careful please
Protect yourself, face, hands and knees
Perhaps you could learn self-defense
Take care when climbing any fence.
Times used to be you were a child
Quite innocent, both kind and mild
Those days are now forever gone
Keep safe my child, the world moves on !
Once you and I walked hand in hand
We dug our toes into the sand
Salt water lapped about our feet
The ocean air was crisp and sweet
The breeze seemed to caress our hair
Twas such a pleasure to be there.
I can remember that last day
The one before you went away
All wars have costs that rise too high
With little chance for much goodbye.
War has not changed these thousand years
Great danger bides beyond our fears
Tis sad to say but true it seems
That youth still pays for old men’s dreams !
There was a place that kids could hide
When they did not feel safe inside
A pleasant place where they might be
Until the time that they felt free.
It used to be about their dreams
In which they would escape it seems
But since this world is upside down
There’s no replacement to be found.
They still can join in Games of War
That’s what these instruments are for
X – Box and IPhone, who knows when
Our children will be safe again ?
The only bears I’ve ever seen
Are in the zoo or on the screen
I’d like to think I’ll never meet
A single one out on the street !
Most bears are wild and roam about
They are quite large with scary snout
But if we met I’d stay quite calm
And slowly turn away from harm,
I’d try to walk with a loud sound
Or crunchy step upon the ground
Talking and praying as I flee
Hoping that he’s as scared as me !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 