In a Time
by Auset (Marian Smothers)
in a time when the vulture hangs low
and civility has left nations;
the mad dogs of the elite bloody nature
pick the bones of the weak,
smack their lips and amaze themselves
at their own grotesque fortune,
...they raise their pinkies for the heist


in a time when love seems shrunken
flung against barbarism;
when words are louder than they
should be;
when peace is threatened from the crowdest
barrio to the loneliest foothill;


when mothers leave their homes
and take to the streets;
when the stench of death and demise
awakens the rich and poor alike;
when the lies of leaders begin to tell on themselves;.
when the holy is missing from the holiest of days.


"In a time of madmen and sheep can Love
still reign, the Power that it is.
Can truth flower?
Take aim?" I asked the Almighty.
He said, sometimes Love is not a flower.
Sometimes Love is a flame!

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