Sounds of Silence 2016

bodies of babies lying lifeless on

                  Mediterranean beaches

silently screaming…stop the bombs!

stop the missiles!  stop the insanity….

                                  no one listens…

                                           even today the children’s hospital

in Aleppo is bombed!

                       clinging to power with children as

hostages

                      invalidates both the power and the

method of holding on

                     the leaders of the world

and their people have all gone

              deafanddumb

to the pleas of sanity,

                                   compassion

                                                             and ethical requirements

of ordinary citizens

                                if we were follow the lead of our

leaders, we would spend the rest of our lives in a cell

                    in ‘enlightened’ countries

and likely tortured in others

                      there is no oversight, no law enforcement, and no courts

                   for those in power

and their files are silently screaming

                                                          like those lifeless bodies

for their attention….

                      war, arms sales, poverty, hunger, clean air, water and conscience

                         the ‘words of the prophets written in graffiti

on tenement walls’

                              have become sets for comedy rants

and funky entertainment

our children’s minds are filled  

                                                     with tactics

for personal aggrandizement

                                               stuffed  with insouciance

and greed

and the narcissism

                                they see everywhere when they look

UP!

 will we build walls around men with power-needs to keep them

                           away from nuclear codes and all the

communication devices that command the military

generals?

                  the silent cries of lifeless children

                                                           carry our hope

into the corridors of political power…..

                                                               can anybody hear

their deafening, screaming silence of death?