We have seen the soldiers marching
And have heard all the cannons roar
In the distance, rockets launching
There in the middle of this war
To find ourselves thus encompassed
In a battle we cannot win
Where the madness is upon us
And the world’s drowning in chagrin !
I think I hear the death knell sound
Reverberating all around
Assure me, I am not insane
And that their speech is just inane.
I cannot bear what I have heard
Although it’s but the boastful word
Of those who hold no truthful call
Determined they’re above it all.
Oh Lord forgive their arrogance
Those words spoken have no defense
Please blessed Lord remember us
When come those times inglorious !
Oh how this world has changed since I
Was young and only stood knee high
The universe has grown much more
So many went there to explore.
We’ve learned how to communicate
With sound and vision up-to-date
Our satellites now fill the skies
All are results of enterprise.
Midst all the challenges we face
Like limbs and organs to replace
With all the changes we have seen
Has faith become an act obscene ?
Where sounds of silence fill the air
And winds of time do memory spare
The depth of emptiness will stare
Into a crowd that does not care !
A growing chill pervades the room
I sense the angst of spreading gloom
How sad that we must victims be
Of anger and anxiety !
What is it that has power to rule
Converts us each into some fool
And robs us of our humankind
To leave us weak and false and blind ?
A lack of faith and knowledge too
Our schooling with a perverse view
Rejecting that which made us great
Replaced with laws of fear and hate !
We can’t forget the children small
Whose portraits hang upon a wall
Of some far place we cannot see
Where angels guard their memory.
These little ones have paid the price
For madness and insane device
Of men who have no mind to care
About young lives and whom they spare.
Pray God soon acts to right the wrong
And beg it will not take so long.
Do you often think
We’re perched on the brink
In a world insane
With values inane
An outcome preset
The most godless yet ?
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Claire V. Bogdanos 