Looking for Answers
by Womensvoice1
I shake my head, and wonder why
I close my eyes, begin to cry
I despair, with frustrated sigh
Man’s inhumanity to man
This week there have been three events
of note, that somehow represent
and illustrate how Man’s descent
is accelerating.
The bigotry of ISIS
has reached a worldwide crisis
has become a sickening Phthisis..
A systemic world disease
Palmyra, Mosul, Jonah’s tomb,
Nimrud, Khorsabad pierce my womb
as artifacts are now but fumes..
a celestial Constellation
Khaled Assad, Syrian scholar
beheaded for his learned collar
after a month of tortured squalor
A Martyr for Palmyra
And then, a cruel abomination
Refugees of Syrian nation
found in ghastly revelation
Seventy one in suffocation
They did not reach their destination
Despite their brave determination
Yet those who do, face discrimination
The harrowing truth be told
They flee not just for better life
They flee from death, from Isis’s knife
from accusations of apostasy..
“Takfiri! ,the cry of “Heresy!”
From religious bigotry
Can we not welcome refugees?
Instead of insensibility
accusing them of villainy
Put down our prejudicial cries
and rescue them from their demise
We, who sit in “Comfort -World”
as we watch the news unfold
with atrocities untold
What can we do to change things?
The third cold blooded week’s event
A premeditated sentiment
Too unexpected to prevent
The perpetrator opened fire
The scene became a funeral pyre
The murder of two reporters
Two young people, in their prime
Too young to die of heinous crime
Victims of these violent times
Heart-felt condolences
I cannot sanely understand
how anyone in this great land
can open fire on fellow man
and serve a higher purpose
I search for answers high and low
as I ponder these sad Tableaux
I wonder if we’ll ever grow
It leaves me cold and wordless.
Art work and Poem, Looking for Answers, by Womensvoice1
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