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
- Владимир Британишский – О, растенья-пустынники дюнных песков
- English Poetry. Katharine Tynan. A Woman Commends Her Little Son. Кэтрин Тайнен.
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ночная смена
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Не знаю, не знаю, живу
- Dedication by Stephen Vincent Benet
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Great Men Have Been Among Us by William Wordsworth
- Heal Your Broken Heart With Heart Touching Poems
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- Nature’s song for the children by Raj Arumugam
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
Some external links:
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).
