Lamentations of Loss
Road to Armageddon?
American missiles flame fiery trails ‘cross middle eastern skies
Death, mutual devastation, bodies blasted beyond recognition
Pieces of near children vaporized, mother’s half face melted
Israeli aggression laying waste a foundation, a populace, a people
Starvation, deprivation, and decimation, souls living in sewer squalor
Amidst crumbled pillars of past societies storied glories
Families forced to mourn love’s lost youth
Bruised resistance crumbled in face of silence’s perceived protection
Gathered, people of foreign decent, shipped, and snatched
Prophecy given form and flesh in front of world’s watching eye
War and rumors of war abound from west to east and ‘round
Famine, strife, kings of men bowing to false deities ever so faithfully
Armageddon approaches, doomed drums sounding in bones marrow
Wail and lament, weep in silence, lest the devourer take notice
Dragons scaled claw fashioned like inverted cross
Wasted lands amongst blighted borders, flame and poisoned dross
Let the hearer hear and reflect through painful introspection
‘Less the records be drawn and warrants called due,
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This piece is part of my book The Seven Thunders.
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