Thursday, June 28, 2012

In A Dark Time by Stephen Jarrell Williams

In a dark time
within us and here,

we smooth ourselves over

with oil and gossip.


Beating our heels into the floor music,

paying more with less

awareness.


Whistling old songs

like they'll save us.


Give us that shot,

vaccine against swine

boiled in the underworld.


There's not enough

lighthouses to cast light over the dying sea.


The fires are burning California.


Where's the great Kennedy from yesterday?


Only Dylan still has a spark to share.


We should march for something...


We're in a vacuum of overpopulation,

soulless mass,

lost


in a dark time.




Published in protestpoems.org- September 2009

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