Can You Hear It?

Can you hear it? can you hear them? the screams of pain echoing across cold grains of sand the moon enveloped in a haze of smoke and dust kicked up by the army ants, treading through the maze of villages fear the new language fear the new mind-set tensions high love low can you hear it? through all the blood and the weeping of mothers there might actually be the sounds of a sweet bird singing a song of hope an love amongst the rubble and decay the song of hope may be heard again. or will it....