Shadow Box

Shadow Box 10/28/2014

You can hear the murmurs in the crowd

And you if are quiet

You can hear the muffled voices

And whispered anger.

Look back at the glass

And see the others looking in

Kept at bay

Through fear and threat.

What price is the truth

That people live in fear

And what is the cost

Of looking the other way. 

Its hard to be happy

When there is so much sadness

Everywhere you look

Starvation, pestilences and neglect.

Words are not enough

But it is all I have

So I spit them out

Awkward, jagged

And painful. 

Every effort is painful

As the world grinds to a halt

Slowly turning over

One half cold

And the other on fire. 

No matter how hard we try

Evil hides

And grows in the shadows

Spreading on invisible wings

Like a germ in a sneeze.  

I wish there was a way

That I could turn back the clock

To know more earlier

And change the future past.

But no man living

Can do that

And we are trapped by a life

Folded neatly into time. 

My dreams have not come true

And I sit in my chair

Alone in a tower

There is no safety

And there is no peace

Not without love

And not without God. 

Save me from me

And help me to remember

That I am loved 

Even here 

And even now.