The Effigy Within

A World torn by hate and strife

With little respect for another’s life;

The fight to establish a superiority

All effects of a misplaced priority!

The man who thinks he is strong

And shatters a woman by doing her wrong;

Plucking the flower when just a bud,

Dropping it to the floor with a thud!

Raging passions displace compassion

Judgement clouded by a misplaced mission;

As fires of hatred burn the grounds,

Bellowing smoke silence a bird’s sound.

The wind carries the cries of despair

A mother’s, a father’s and a child’s prayer!

A home that is hearth to a life full of dreams

Comes down crumbling with its beams.

Leaders voice their concern in a mike

And somewhere a missile does strike,

A beautiful world slowly destroyed in the din

What needs to be destroyed is the effigy within…