scurry on down to your walmart store load up on those stocking stuffers suggested by the morning news host who failed to mention during the news that 7 hundred and 30 rohingya children were killed in myanmar in just one month and don’t stop to listen to stories of the blockade in yemen and the outbreak of cholera cholera that will infect a mere 600 thousand children by the end of this year’s bowl session no need for concern when you’ve your own blockade to deal with as you struggle to find a parking space to gobble up those 50% discounts on overstocked items like those designer jeans that were marked up 350% making your discount a real step for mankind and whatever you do don’t watch any stories about those suffering in our own nation those who bear invisible scars scars of rape rejection and replacement i mean they had the same opportunities as you did or did they
dawning of the new day
let the battle drums
proclaim this day
that hope shall not be denied
today in the armor of truth
hope shall stand
before the gates of hell
and deny death
its rewards for deception
standing as a man
who will not bow before
the arrogance of inhumanity
nor bleed tears of despair
hope shall march into
the spiritual realm of evil
and free the tortured souls
lingering with self-doubt
on their crosses of fear
it shall raise its banner of faith
high in the air
regaining all that was lost
to spirits of greed
and hate
letting no man
nor beast
stand in its way
for this day
victory
will not be
a dream
This poem represents my second response to the third challenge series between Jade and I. This challenge is somewhat different in that the prompt is now an audio prompt. Each poet provides the other with five instrumental songs (so that the song’s words do not interefere with the poet’s) from which the poet is to write a poem. Jade has written her first response which can be found here.