Babylon (more excerpts)

Sometime in the Night

what is left to be said,

that has not already been said?

we live in a world,

where quiet heroism means nothing,

ruled by those boasting of every

accomplishment,

crying out every great deed,

putting others down,

so they might be lifted up,

a world where truth and effort

are no longer rewarded,

only loud mouth trash-talking,

and instant self-gratification;

we live in a world,

ruled by television and play stations,

where might makes right,

ends justify means,

a make-believe world,

in which there is no longer room,

for simple lives,

or simple dreams;

we live in a world

of our own choosing,

a death within the dead,

a soft quiet whisper

among the shadows,

a hot white, empty light,

filled slowly and surely

by the dark innocent night;

the time is now,

even as the moments

pass us by,

on their way to lost and

foreign shores,

where mourning vessels await,

cold and dark,

hidden among the silent,

broken smiles,

filled with a lover’s passion,

her eyes shining like

liquid night;

seen by all,

yet touched by none.

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New Gods and Prophets

what if I told you:

white was black,

day is night,

round is square,

up is down;

would that make it so?

would you believe what I say?

or would you let reality

rule the way?

what if I told you that the

invasion of Iraq,

the overthrow of Saddam Hussein,

was what 9/11 was really about,

that we are doing exactly

as it was planned on us doing,

what was counted on us doing,

that American youth are dying

for the cause of a new Islam;

would you believe me then?

sometimes truth is so big,

staring us coldly in the face,

reality so twisted and unreal,

that it is impossible to be seen

by those who think only

in terms of yesterday;

new religions are born from

the ashes of impossible thought,

by visionaries who recognize it

for what it is,

those who see beyond

the way it has always been,

those who see the promised land

before it has been reached,

these visionaries become the

new prophets,

the new gods of

tomorrow’s reality;

whether you believe it now

or not.

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Martin Luther King Day?

Martin Luther King day?

he brought sanity

to an insane world,

created calmness

out of chaos,

brought peace

to a battlefield,

forgiveness,

where none was deserved,

light to a land grown black

by internal darkness;

so;

Martin Luther King day?

I would certainly think so;

or at least a floater,

for the first 50 years or so,

(profits are never recognized

in their own time);

oh;

make sure it’s on a Monday,

(might as well get a long weekend out of it).

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