Belshazzar - the Doomsayer's Dirge
I feel Disturbed
with the callous call to arms
for vested gains
and rhetorical rants of raving men
ostentatiously out to save your souls
having pledged theirs to Lucifier's lien.
I see the city ablaze
with dreams of the denizens on the street
as they mindlessly move
to put their minds in front of soulless screens
churning out code for what they know not.
I wish I would, I wish I could
shout at the ostriches all around
who hear the screams and shut them out
pretending they do not exist.
What God's of Darkness
do we pray to
at temples of modern doom?
The Simon and Garfunkelian tune
finds vent as a doomsayer's dirge.
And I am suitably disturbed.
~11 May 2016~
Contest Judged: 5/14/2016 6:42:00 AM
Lyrics cliché image - Poetry Contest - sponsored bt Silent One
1. Lyric - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
Disturbed - sound of silence. (an amazing version)
2. Cliche - The Writing on the Wall
3. Picture #5
Placed 2nd
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