In a Time
by Auset (Marian Smothers) 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! copyright 2003 |