Best Poems Written by Neil Macdonald

Aurora Canadiana

In this 'kinder,gentler nation' ,
                Why does violence get so much attention?
                 Streets of sorrow in a kinder, gentler land:
                Suggests someone just doesn't understand.
                Gunfire echoing through our big cities:
                Acoustics for insipid rock 'n' roll ditties?
               Should a land that yet recognizes God's supremacy
                Legalize an insulting iniquity?
                But if man is now his own god,
                Is such behaviour all that odd?
                A human god is a contradiction, to be sure;
                One that needs propaganda to endure
                But will he bring a renewed dawn,
                Or will our failures go on and on?
                Will the land that claims human supremacy
                 Remain the land that will not be,
                 Or highlight its secular flaws
                 And become the land that never was

Copyright © Neil Macdonald | Year Posted 2006