Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth

Bang bang

Banging at the door

In the dead of night

The dark illuminates your fright

As I’m pulled from your bed

Dragged across the floor.

 

Bang bang

Banging inside your head

Festering wounds inflicted by structural
violence

But the pain illuminates your silence

As you escape into ignorance

Safe in the sewer with the rest of the
dead.

 

Bang bang

Bullets rip through flesh

Blood stains the road

Bomb blast craters disfigure the
landscape

As we turn our attention elsewhere

Crippled and blinded by fear.

 

Bang bang

Blatant lies disguise the face of decay

That feeds on complacency

And breeds on greed and callousness

As we bend down and pray

Broken beings lapping up all the shit
that we’re fed.

 

Bang bang

Buildings burn and towers crumble

While our kin continue to die everyday

And not just from guns but from a lack of
water

As progress wears another mask

Bowed and bent we play our complicit
parts.

 

Bang bang

Ons lewe in dread

Gebuig en gedruig tot die mens verdwyn

En al wat oorbly is net vlees en been

As our faces contort around capped smiles

Grimacing as we look but fail to
perceive.

 

Bang bang

We go through life like phantom players

Trying so hard to ignore the facts:

We need to contain this manic psychosis

As we hustle and strive just to survive

Brow beaten and bowed, chattering too
loud.

 

Bang bang

There are no more excuses

All of the rhetoric and skirting are
useless

Sharpen the pencils and brushes and
chords

As we try to dissect and express what we
see

Within this tragedy
of impotent revolution.

End of the poem

15 random poems

 

Poetry by subject

Some external links:

The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave 

Talking Writing Monster.

Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US

Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe

Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).

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