Where do we go from here
because I don't know this world any longer
This world is burning and drowning in fear
and the darkness is growing ever stronger
***
Longing for simpler times does no good
in the midst of randomness that abounds
To figure it all out would help if someone could
in a world of howling fear and its' wretched sounds
***
The bell tolls on the world
but they're all too deaf
Lost in this new world
of which soon there may be nothing left
***
Knowing what to do is not so hard
but having the strength to do it, I just don't know
Looking to the heavens for answers, my feet feel the grass from the yard
the world suddenly begins to slow
***
Nightmarish images flash before my eyes
feeling the pain of a thousand voices
Sad and alone a little one cries
while somewhere else someone suffers their choices
***
Like a light, extinguished, one voice quiets in the night
and I feel a little of that pain fading away
Not knowing in that home there is a ghastly sight
because there was nobody to come and save the day
***
Shots ring close
yet I do not flinch
Their familiar sound like the howl of a ghost
yet I don't move an inch
***
I feel them all around me
and I drown in their despair
Their stories they want to tell desperately
because their fates were never fair
***
I close my eyes so tight
and pray they would float away
Trying with all my might
They just return the next day
***
Where is the world I remember so fondly
and why did we let it go
How could we have acted so wrongly
and from here where do we go
***
Feeling it really strongly
wondering how to let it go
About the Creator
Jason Ray Morton
I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.
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Excellent work !
Super sad poem and wonderfully written!💕