In Another Time

My worst fear is to be trapped in a world, where nothing is real;
A terrestrial nightmare that's just a façade.
Existing in a realm where there's nothing to feel;
Living beneath a Heaven, where there is no God.

Escalated fears in the absence of rule,
Leaders circumventing our every natural birthright.
Usurping freedoms and sharpening their tools;
Powers that govern, in the darkness of night.

Sinister sovereign rulers, their powers unclipped,
Expressing total suppression over the land.
Where righteousness, its virtues now stripped,
Succumbs to the darkness, as the wave to the sand.

How dark is the night, that never sees day;
Naivety of the lamb; an injustice absolute.
How deep the ocean; how crimson the bay?
Man's inhumanity to man, the devil's commute.

I'd suffer the pangs of the samurai's sword
Rather than see my children languish in despair.
My worst fear is their absence of any reward,
In a world riddled with deceptiveness, almost beyond repair.

Where is the justice in this world so unfair?
Nothing other than the silent voices of the people,
Will ever free us from this most nefarious nightmare.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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July 18, 2016 at 12:08 PM
Franki, Thanks so much for reading my poem and your comment!
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July 18, 2016 at 12:04 PM
YES! All of us must SPEAK up! It is Innocence until proven guilty not Guilty before proven Innocence! We RULE the government! Doesnt anyone know these things? Do NOT let them take away our freedoms no matter how much sense they seem to make, for they will rule with your money, and only ask for a raise to take it all away!
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