there is a great darkness out there today
by cat22
Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-03-18 19:15:00
there are voices cryin to be heard
through the obfuscating smoke and mirrors
there are words that are waiting to inspire
a fire in the heart
that will never go
out
there is a great darkness out there today
that will seek to cover your eyes with scales
that will whisper lies in your ear, cater to the fear
that biger then life boogie men are afoot
and so they are
though they are not
bigger then LIFE
they are the other
the world is nothing
if it is not other
enemies without
enemies within
boogie men under
the bed, black goo
there be monsters
and there be muppits
and there be you
chose ye well
heaven is not hell
and Germans don’t bayonet babies in world war I
everything been done under that black mirror sun
be angry at the sun, be angry at the sun
and yes virgina there is a terrorist santa claus
but they did toss babies on spears
during the crusades
so what goes around
comes around Disraeli gears turnin
and jihad is a holy war with the self
i spit on the buddhist mongol and din
peck at jesus eyes with my pens beak
extremists are grown in test tubes
and terror is carefully calculated in
shadow labs with inks and dyes
there is a great darkness out there today
spells brewed up by techno-mages
gleened from holy book pages
all things rendered unto Ceaser
and his back stabing cronies
history is one big lesson learned in history books
or so they say
was Socrates
a member of the hemlock society
we are doomed to learn it again
that the conquerors are not
of the cycles of natural time
they are only seen in great Epic poems
and we saw all we needed to see of
Hector and co.
a gog and may a gog
are only a cog
there is a great darkness out there today
so time for the warrior poets to come out and play
listen to what i say: BEware of Darkness…!