Smiling Sorrow

Grey turns the sky at noon:
Broken arrows storm the atmosphere
With their terrible mastiff and slavers
And carted away the glowing stars.
I gazed with a blurred lens
Into the sky where the sparrows fly	
But the smoke from the burning huts 
Had scared away the sparrow’s choristers: 
No song, no peace, not even a glimpse of hope 
No light, no night, not even the sweet shining stars
For smiling sorrows swings back and forth the town	
And clanged to the souls that once did smile
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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February 12, 2009 at 11:59 AM
dark and powerful... almost medieval and Hieronymus Bosch.... great writing Adeleke !
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