I've Heard

I've heard the cries of an innocent child

I've looked for reasons and I have not found

The instigator of all this blood shed

Women running at night in their tufted robes

Crying for all the lost souls.

We are all humans

Why are others treated like schlock

What is all this commotion of bones breaking from twisted necks?

I've heard the falsetto cries of a man falling from a gun

Children running like ants except it is not fun

Wasted childhood spent on the run

Hundreds fall at a single deft movement of a gun

Nothing makes sense to the old men when there is no son

Rain pouring abandoned by the sun.

Where have our voices went that we use bombs to communicate?

When did terrorism become a norm?

It's not ourselves we are fighting, death is the common enemy.

This is not our destiny

It seems like every child is born with a felony

Men quitting work, strangled by alimony

We are no longer looking forward to the future because the past smells so heavenly.

Grey hair and wrinkled faces wishing they could all go back to pre-2002

Where all lives mattered too

Praying for the ability,

To eradicate all this atrocity.

To a world were the values include humanity.