Open Poetry #49 |
We Fall... (A duet with hunnie_girl) |
Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
Once the world was a place of peace Once the world was just beauty and truth Now we stand before the precipice, the void Before us chaos, anarchy our hope destroyed So many changes, its hard to believe Many suffer the consequences Alarm on the faces all living with fear Screams the question "How did we get here?" The skies burn with purple flame Men - Women run and tremble Watch the world collapse around them A thousand screams, the blood unstemmed. Nothing to be done but watch in disgust It was us, It was us who asked for this How can we live in a world so unjust In the end, no where to turn, no one to trust It was we who brought the Angels wrath Those Silver men and their terrible machines We crossed every line took every chance Made the inferno descend and the fires dance. Once again we are forced to action Now unsure of what can be done Wishing back to pasts false securities Searching hard for those righteous clarities Yet still we raise ourselves, but falteringly Jarred into action by a world of destruction So we raise our hand and cast the dice Can we stem our fall a swansong of Fire and Ice Can we bring it together again? Repair that centuries in the destruction? Lying in wait for the truth to descend A new beginning or the bitter end We turn to face our last sunset Our final desperate third act O'er land air and sea we take travel And with us the future past unravels I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Way to go you two! I think you voiced well a fear many of us ar neither willing nor ready to face. A graceful yet somber dance you did! Lori |
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