| Title: |
 War at Home |
| Author: |
Blue Ben W. |
Narrator: |
Blue Ben W. |
| Kind: |
Poem |
Type: |
MP3 |
Time: |
00:02:14 |
Size: |
3.07 MB |
war at home
by blue ~ 2006-06-08
(inspired by a city news article)
- gotta be a better way to live
- than killing fast or slow
- with banging weapons red on metal
- or poison substances deadly lethal
- or toxic words no love to give
- kids growing up too fast
- or not growing up at all
- even way past 18 years
- giving birth to twins
- called despair and poverty
- fathered by nothing
- mothered by fateful hate
- or hateful fate
- the graffiti's hard to read
- spray painted in shattered blood
- lovers and relatives crying now
- cameras film the obscene
- for public disinformation
- people are colored alright
- crime-tape yellow
- or glaring puke green
- sanguine red and petroleum black
- but mostly mortal grey
- one weapon two lives ruined
- one dead and one not alive
- how long must my people wait
- let my people go sweet heavens
- free us free them from selfish selves
- don't matter skins' colors babies
- we're all dyin' if we ain't livin'
- ain't no white powder or green cash
- gonna save our souls from justice
- nor give young and old folks peace
- if we can't stop livin' for dyin'
- if we can't start lovin' and likin'
- if we can't quit the evils within
- each one ourselves together
- make new the damaged space