Words can Kill

Open SecretsThe world comes knocking

at the wise man’s door

like all good guests

laying problems at his feet

quietly, he feeds them

as gluttonous appetites

ravage the evening’s meal

bloated with assumptions

they raucously depart

hidden in the corner

a hungry servant

died on table scraps

 

Principles Worth Defending

What is this space we say we need

and to our neighbors refuse to cede

Our bodies willingly we’ll bleed

if our words they fail to heed

 

Seeking love with heart sincere

a bloodied child sheds a tear

Our cause is just, the course won’t veer

such hypocrites, we have no peer

 

From global wars to marriage spats

righteousness wears white hats

And just like hissing alley cats

soon throws itself upon the rats

 

They say we live an age of reason

apparently there has been treason

But let us wait another season

before removing ego’s lesion

 

Religious leaders take such pride

in claiming God is on their side

As human passions they seek to hide

in fear the flock finds they lied

 

If all is fair in love and war

then our poor world will heal no sore

And children raised on local lore

will also rot at the core

 

 

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