Children of War

Children of War

I was a witness :
when a king would fall to perish
When a queen was left in impair
How normality was a cherish
No dwelling would fall to spare
And I watched with a frozen tear.

Lost in a loon, and in despair
When the sun forgot to rise
And when the Moon was not aware
A darkened day was in declare
When the nations of ire thoughts
Had only cloaks of black to wear
A crack of heart was now a tear
Blood in the eyes covered the glare
Timorous visions of lonely kin
Had the horizon in quiescent stare
Thinking decree was so unfair
Faces painted with the questions:
'Can I scream ? Should I dare ?
Can I run ? Would the sniper care ?
Can I make it to the corner ?
Or will I tangle in a snare ?
Will I make it to the wall ?
Or to a bullet will I fall ?
Do I have the strength and flair ?
Will a docile chest of fleeing child
Be target to a piercing flare ?'
And I watched with a frozen tear.

I saw the spirits that were shattered
Innocent women who were battered
Their home a ruin, siblings scattered
The essence in fret, and all tattered
As the heavens shook and rattled
Fiery canisters rained and clattered
And I watched with a frozen tear.

I saw the hearts full of sorrow
And the faces covered in gloom
A spirit they needed to borrow
As if it was the day of doom
Forfeited hopes for tomorrow
The promised dream had lost the loom
In garden of ash, and forest of barren
The blossoms can never bloom
To screaming children who cover their ears
The silence can never come soon.

As I watched with a frozen tear
Asking the questions born of fear
'Could it be that a king was born
Among the tribes that were scorn
Could it be that one had the answer
To cure the world from all the cancer'.

'What they learned, what they earned
From all the fires that they burned'.

~ Sharky ~

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