HEADING TOWARDS THE FALLS

  

No one has an ore

As the boat just floats

Down the river,

Heading towards the fall.

 

This is life, at the moment,

In all areas

Country, work and personal,

No one has the control.

 

Those in power are useless

They are sailing towards destruction

Mistake after mistake.

 

The police act as they please

Torturing innocent people

Based on skin color.

Will there ever be a stop to this?

 

Parents crying as they bury their little ones.

Fourth graders all shot one by one.

Empty beds,

Empty homes.

Rage and sorrow in so many hearts

Children who witnessed it all

Traumatized waiting for it to happen to them.

Instead of training teachers to improve teaching methods –

Gun drills: gather or spread out?

How to know which is beat?

Sorrow and grief stamped on their faces.

 

People missing

Lives abducted

Slaughtering those who are the first of the forests.

Destruction and death

Felling trees to make money

The root of all evil:

The money and the power

The power and the money

It has already been sung before.

 

Hunger and poverty

Rising on a daily basis

Bombs, attacks, raids, rapes

When will it all end?

Why is it all happening?

Greed, power, pleasure

In torturing and killing.

Defeat and conquer.

Conquer a destroyed country?

All of this is senseless

While specialist try to make

Some sense of out of it all.

 

The boats are just afloat,

Heading towards the falls.

 

Written: May 27, 2022

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