• This World Will Tear You Apart

    The vision of her skin and the outline of her shape is reflected in his eyes
    She found solace and comfort within his arms,
    While he found pleasure and warmth in another women’s bed
    Slowly losing the light of her life in his lies

    This world will tear you apart.

    A man stares at an unseen spot on the wall,
    shaking as he tries not to hate those that despise him.
    His skin color is different,
    and to them, he must die for such a crime.

    This world will tear you apart.

    A woman speaks her mind,
    and a lash comes down across her back.
    Men try to protect her,
    but her life is given to the cause she tries to support.

    This world will tear you apart.

    A child is born in America,
    yet his mother was not.
    People come to bring him to a horrible home,
    as his mother is deported back to where she had once escaped.

    This world will year you apart.

    The nursery sits bare with walls still empty,
    While the mother mourns the loss of an unnamed child.
    A coffin so tiny becomes black beneath the ground,
    A cry never heard rings through the air.

    This world will tear you apart.

    A man searches for the love he once knew,
    And finally finds that one that makes him smile.
    Feelings make him go so numb inside that his heart can’t stand the strain
    He leaves a girl crying ten feet from the alter.

    This world will tear you apart.

    A daughter cries black tears of mascara,
    As her beloved possession is taken from her life
    A small whisper can be heard “why daddy?”
    As she slows floats away.

    This world will tear you apart

    Tires screech and a little boy screams,
    Loud crash and a river of red flows from the street.
    A horn pierces the new silence,
    As more men and women join arms with others.

    This world will tear you apart.

    Men stand in line, their heads held high,
    They are leaving their mothers to help their country
    We respect them and cry when we hear,
    Another man’s life is taken across the sea

    This world will tear you apart.

    Pain and lies, filled with despair
    Torment and anguish, jealousy and deceit
    A world with false love and resented obligation
    A life where even karma isn’t fair

    This world will tear you apart.

    Copyright Molli Courtney 2008