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
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Заболоцкий – В тайге
- In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam by William Cowper
- Above the Battle’s Front by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- On A Miser (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- Низами Гянджеви – Газелеокая
- Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Будь готов
- The Coin by Sara Teasdale
- Анатолий Жигулин – Марта, Марта! Весеннее имя
- Федор Сваровский – Об удивительном
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
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).
