GOOD MEN DIE

All through the Bible

It shows in every page

In the Holy Quoran

In the Bhagwat Gita

In the teachings of Buddha

Man hated one another

Because of the difference

Of his pigmentation

And because of the difference

Of his religion

All these things came to pass

Because good men

Sit by and did nothing.

Today it still goes on

Only yesteryear millions

Of Jews were massacred

Guilty of being Jews

All over in the world

Good people are dying

‘cause they’re poor or black

And good Caucasians

Sit by and do nothing.

Leaders of nations

Steal and cheat

From their wretched people

Corporations cheat and steal

By declaring bankruptcies

By being shifters of accounts

Putting good employees

On the employment line

As good men with myopic eyes

Sit by and do nothing. 

When evil is done

As evil prosper

People get numbed

And insensitive

With vice and violence

On TV and the media

As kids play games

Which belch violence

As good parents sit by

And do nothing.

Kids take this venom

To their schools

And share it with

Pupils and teachers

Bringing also tokens

Of guns and knives

And good teachers

And good principals

Sit by and do nothing.

Men cheat on wives

Women commit adultery

Drug dealers sell their souls

For power and the mighty dollar

Addicting many millions

With their abetted pushers

And all this evil spread

As Justice sleeps

And do nothing.

Our clergy abuse our youths

Our doctors abuse our women

Those that sit and judge

Close their eyes

As authorities abuse

Those under them

These evil come to pass

Because good men

Sit by and do nothing.

From man’s conception

Catastrophe struck Adam

Maybe the story of Eve

Was God’s way in showing

That deep down man is evil

But some good men or sages

Like Jesus, Mohammed

Ram and Buddha,

Martin Luther King

Mahatma Gandhi

These good men

Did something

But were killed. 

~Norman Datt~