A Remnant Remains

What Remains by Rick Folker June, 2017 Kansas City, MO When the crowd clamors And the tocsin clangs When the mighty and powerful Crush the weak, the vulnerable, The poverty that chains and shames When fear fights fiercely With the menacing gang Silencing the prophets With their poisonous slang When the refugee seeks safety Those sojourners are met with a Door slamming And a deafening bang! When these omens and portents are The normal sturm und drang Of a soul-less people clinging to Myths of endless positive change When all of these mindless, pointless, Endless Strife-filled days Divide and dwindle down To the ashes of the last Death pangs A Remnant Remains A Remnant Remains And life and love are reborn and return Again! and Again! and Again!