Quiet Contemplation

Time has come

need to retreat from this world

from the terror

the pain

the abuse of sensibilities

quiet contemplation

that is what is needed.

War rages

around the street corner

gangsters in colors

children with guns

no future

other than death

or a lifetime in a jail cell.

War rages

discrimination

hatred

bred with violence

destroying lives

destroying people

who have never harmed another.

Abuse of power

rampant

in countries once thought great

now using tactics of gorilla warfare

to get what they want.

Corruption

seamed throughout

one hand washes the other

while money is handed about.

Tears fall

parched earth

searing sun

withdraw from the evils

the degeneration

nothing can be done

to cease the collapse

the ruination

of what once was.

©May 3/19

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