Malignancies, car crashes
Power’s decisions rash
Politics, war, ideological clash
Terror marring summer skies
Buildings imploding, cutting short lives
Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties
Young men angered over trifles
Seeking fame with rifles
Innocent lives stifled
Spouses swift dead
Penury unexpected instead
Loves replaced with dread
Youth taken too soon
Hearts devastated strewn
Not escaping doom
Time’s swift march
Aged realities harsh
Loneliness too much
Control, an illusion
Reality, all confusion
No matter what say television
All things change
Rearrange
Old wisdoms burn and flame
The more you grasp
To rigid breasts clasp
Shorter do things last
Swept away are we
Towards futures unseen
Not knowing whom we’ll be
You are not the master of your fate
Nor Captain of your soul.
Realize this, before the bell tolls.
