Satan’s Blade

Something needs to change...

Satan’s Blade

They carry knives for self-protection

Claiming it’s just a defensive reflection

But in truth it is another sad deflection

Away from local street gang’s infection

Satan’s blade their badge of dominance

Giving them a sensation of confidence

And on a gang leader clear prominence

Yet it has no foundational competence

Indefensible weapons of fearful distrust

Can ruin a young life with a lethal thrust

Confiscation tactics is a community must

To toss into a furnace turning all to dust

In the hideous face of society’s adversity

We need to battle against this perversity

With constructive sympathetic diversity

To improve our youths’ future certainty

Copyright @Phillozofee 2019

Author's Note

... could almost feel a 'Rapper's' anger...

Reviews

[Robert Trakofler]

You know i love the rhythm and rhyme of this Phil, Here its guns there its knives... The projections of manhood via gang related media paints this romantic picture of all the least manly qualities and aspects of humanity there is! From a time long since past the chains of bodnar perpetuates in the songs of disparity leaving the dregs for the dregs to clamor desperate what they can take from the crumbs no matter what the costs even if it is there humanity and the values get distorted in the fruits of the ages and comes to this. Goodness you made me think to much! I think that this was a very thoughtful write and obviously invoked me to this over zealous scrawl!

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

I hear you loud and clear Phill. Your musical rant expresses the dangers of the carrying of lethal weapons in our society, not only by gun activists, would-be ‘gangstas’ and gang thugs, but by the kid next door. Went to a play recently, and the young women standing behind me on the security check line took good sized knives out of their handbags and tossed them in the bushes so they wouldn’t be confiscated. Frightening on so many levels. Great language, flow, rhyme, rhythm send an important message in this poem. Kudos!