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Innercity warfare has entered the suburbs,
the fear is escalating and the victims go unheard
but the life is steady reachin to the young and the old
the fast life grabs you and it takes control
Til your dead in the street for wearin the wrong flags
left dead in the gutter for the shade of a rag
the news skirts the issues, the bullets are misused
when they lower the casket, i guess thats when it hits you
that its somebody's mother cryin over the coffin
what can you say when the tears stain her soft skin?
"He died for the set" is hardly a blessin
when you look into her eyes can you see the questions?
"Why are we fighting?, Why did they do this?"
if theres a point to this madness, its a point that i missed
People are people, we all bleed the same blood
And just like Bob Marley, we're sharin the same love
but Zion is cryin, and the pride of the lion
is caged by the sounds of the innocents cryin
And in Babylon, the war wages on
and lullabies are sung to the sound of the bombs
there are children, sufferin, and missing their moms
they dont know why we're fighting, but they know that its wrong
In Mesopotamia, we have bombs over Baghdad
and the streets are filled with rubble in a land where we once had
homes and businesses, mosuques, and, of course
the Government we're "helping" while we all make it worse
the children, they wonder if they'll make it to school
will their homes still be standing at the end of our rule?
Will they survive, will their family and friends?
"The noise is so scary, Allah, when will it end?"
The bloodiest battle is the one on our conscience
Not the Middle East, or this gang violence nonsense
the crime is that no one says "enough is enough!
You can kill me, you hear me? But that wont make you tough."
Im calling for a cease fire, send your sorrow to me
and form one nation under HUMANITY!
- Title: one nation, under all
- Artist: alavastin
- Description: just a little rhyme i wrote one day... hopefully at leats a few of you understand it... lemme know if ye like it, i might submit more.
- Date: 03/08/2010
- Tags: nation under
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Comments (2 Comments)
- Slinkenhofer - 02/09/2012
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A few of your lines don't make sense. You have allusions in places that only distract the reader, and you seem to just rhyme in places with no thought of whether or not it makes sense.
But all in all, not a bad start.
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