Pretend To Be Blind

spoken word, war, conflicts . . .etc.

The Numbers are increasing
Children are weeping

All signs of sanity are gone
Birds once chirped soothing melodies,
now there are none

There is nothing left but
suffocating gases in the air

Does no one care?

Can no one hear the
cries of despair?

A weary hand reaches out, 
will no one take it?
The grounds have dried
and crumbled

and so have they . . .

What was once a home
has turned into dust

Their residents have become
piles of empty remains

and those who haven't been
turned into corps walk
with eyes of cold cadavers

They continue to aim fire
while reeking odors of
rotting flesh spread

seeping into their lungs

contaminating their souls

 

Another’s warm blood on their hands

Splashed on their chest,

Marked on their faces and in their eyes,

their shut eyes…

red eye lids…

red…

The ground now is covered by a
colorful quilt formed from
sprawling bodies that have been
mended together with
scarlet colored threads

Are we blind?
Or do we pretend not to see?

The Numbers are increasing
Children are weeping
All signs of sanity are gone

(Whispers)
.
.
.
.
Does no one care?
 
(A bit louder)

"Doesn't anyone care!? "

Author's Note

I saw this documentary on world wars, it really shook me to see so many people at conflict and as result hurting one another. Sadly, it still hasn't come to a stop. I hope one day it will, i know this may be a bit unrealistic cause there will always be something someone will disagree on, but then again . . . who knows, the world might finally realize what they've been doing wrong all of these years and get it right for a change. There are many ways to settle a dispute, harmony is still an option u know.
"WORLD PEACE EVERYONE!" just givin' it a shot. -shrugs-

Reviews

[Kiri Nells]

O.o Will you please stop with the talent? It's killing me. :D Fantastic use of structure, rhythm and words. Basically, praise on the overall arrangement of the piece.

[Marie Harrison]

What a powerful picture you have painted.
Such a sad quilt

[Rikkevi Rue]

right on. War is pointless and purely destructive, unless one is seeking to profit, take over or perhaps lessen the population (all reasons wars have occurred). I like the cry out for sanity and justice to prevail. Sadly, these things only happen when sane and rational social people are so sickened by the carnage, or their own survival is threatened to a degree they can no longer ignore that they enter into the fray and bring order. Hopefully those controlling the current mess rein it in before it gets too much worse. A pathetic planet is earth, governments are SO irresponsible!

[YouoweYoupay]

You have started writing this piece with very commonly used rhymes, but as you take the reader downwards the scene changes and we are able to see bits of what we pretend not to see. Cries that are faraway from our nicely decorated homes but if their tears are collected would overflow a river passage.

"The ground now is covered by a
colorful quilt formed from
sprawling bodies that have been
mended together with
scarlet colored threads."

Amazing stanza. I love the use of colors to picture the disaster.

Your author's note although touching sounded a bit naive, for we cannot know the exact feeling of peace without enduring the curse of war first. And we cannot know the true beauty of roses and sunlight until we have been forced to live in the moonless dark. Conflicts will never end, no matter how much we want them to. Thought-provoking piece that awakens counciousness and makes the heart ache with painful truth. Keep writing.