Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Vigil

Indigence explodes raining shards of complacency on broken families

Violence points guns pulling triggers of ignorance killing innocence

Bullets speed quickly across barriers of time piercing the future

Parents are haunted by screams from beyond the grave of murdered children

The war is on

Crack and smak smiling illusions of happiness stand on the corner

Thieves steal through the night silent phantoms in the dark breaking into lives

Drugs rob the children

Hunger devours their strength

They sleep in anger

The streets lure the young with promises of riches stifling the spirit

Music from cars blasting curses and obscenities sing of degradation and humiliation

Mothers shed tears crying for children gone astray lost in shades of gray

Poverty marches on


Jesus is waiting
Silently keeping vigil
Through the long dark night

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