|
 Menu
|
|
|
|
|
Social
|
|
|
|
|
The fabric of the times...
Contributed by
zenith66
on
Monday, 3rd September 2007 @ 02:25:55 AM in AEST
Topic:
Event
|
Touch the fabric of the times,
Feel the blood from pointless crimes,
Hold the soil where children lay
And cry for wars the leaders crave,
Infants die from dirty water in the blood,
Walking scorching miles to swallow mud,
No arms no legs no house or rooms,
Our bullets blow them into early tombs,
Leaking dreadful radiation onto earth,
It mutilates our babies at the birth,
Losing eyes and bowls and hair,
Lungless toddlers grasp for precious air,
Steely chimneys suffocate the sky,
Oily waters watching birds and flowers die,
Mammoth forests are falling to the floor,
Tsunamis obliterate the poorest foreign shores,
We destroyed a nation in the blink of an eye,
Horrific mushroom clouds ripped and burned the sky,
Searing skin and vaporising bone,
Burning helpless bodies in their home,
The atmosphere holds bands of toxic gases
Sulphuric vapour falls in rain upon the grasses,
Tearing exospheric holes, ring the alarm bells!!
Polluting human skin with cancerous cells
Filthy needles invading adolescent veins,
Growing into robbers with defective broken brains,
Clouds of nicotine linger round our heads,
Blackened lungs and homeless bodies lie on concrete beds,
Touch the fabric of the times,
Remember those who stop the crimes,
The puppet soldiers kids and wives,
The rehabilitated addict loving life,
Don’t be just another shallow mind
Reach out…and change the fabric of our times…
Copyright ©
zenith66
... [
2007-09-03 02:25:55]
(Date/Time posted on
site)
Advertisments:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sorry, comments are no longer allowed for anonymous, please register for a free membership to access this feature and more
|
|
All comments are owned by the poster. Your Poetry
Dot Com is not responsible for the content of any
comment.
That said, if you find an offensive comment, please
contact via the FeedBack Form with details, including poem title
etc.
|
|
|
Re: The fabric of the times...
(User Rating: 1 )
by zenmind on
Tuesday, 4th September 2007 @ 08:59:05 AM AEST
(User
Info | Send
a Message)
|
Thanks. I like where you are going with this poem. It's kind of crazy to see all of the horrible things that have been done to the planet and to each other, all listed out in one poem. It's a lot to take in which makes it feel intense....and the situation is intense, so that serves the poem well.
Be True,
zenmind |
|
|
Re: The fabric of the times...
(User Rating: 1 )
by needledancing on
Thursday, 6th September 2007 @ 10:16:55 PM AEST
(User
Info | Send
a Message)
|
| This speaks volumes of what man can do and has done. Sad and to the bone truth we can not escape. You have done a magnificent job spelling it out.So much work to do to even think of undoing any of it.Yet with every fiber we must somehow learn to reweave the holes in this blanket called earth.Excellent write. |
|
|
Re: The fabric of the times...
(User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on
Monday, 6th October 2008 @ 07:13:36 AM AEST
(User
Info | Send
a Message)
|
Oh zenith! I mean, my GOD this is bloody fantastic!! I'm so sorry I missed it
before. (what WAS I doing? lol)
This was enough to evoke tears, my dear friend. It reads almost like the description
of some science fiction movie or the future we do not want .. but in reality the
future is now. And it is disheartening, to say the least that all this is either
ignored, or excused away. You are right. We all have a power within us.
Even if it's just giving five bucks, a sandwich or a blanket to that homeless
guy you pass everyday. Volunteering, writing a letter to your politician .. I mean
there are so many ways we can make a difference. It is too bad that money
has become the goal of so much, leaving very little time for anything else.
Damn fine writing my dear friend and poet. This one almost makes you
feel guilty. (thanks a lot eh? lol j/k)
~ Breezy
(hope you weren't TOO late for school, but thanks for that
amazing comment! you are far too kind. ^_^ ) |
|
|
Re: The fabric of the times...
(User Rating: 1 )
by windowguy on
Sunday, 12th April 2009 @ 12:20:08 PM AEST
(User
Info | Send
a Message)
|
Powerful write. You don't mince your words - say it as it truly is. The message is clear: WHAT A MESS!!! Wise are we that are not sucked in to the vortex of this utter mess.
Thanks be that there is Someone watching and poised to clean it all up. After all, we're just the tenants. Bad tenants need evicting.
Great poem. |
|
|
|
· 
Poetry
Community
Members
Areas
Reference
Search
Top
Others
