This Is Just A Nightmare

This is just a nightmare

Any moment

I will be woken up

By someone beloved.

This is just a nightmare.

This can’t be reality

For I know

How things are meant to be

And it’s not this.

This

Is just a nightmare.

The tears on your faces

Are not made by you

The destruction of your homes

And your lives

Are the result of

Something far beyond

Your and my

Imaginations.

This is just a nightmare.

Reality is not before us.

Because of greed,

Of hate,

Of every bad thing in us

Your freedom is stripped

And your health is destroyed.

Though you have been

Blamed

Throughout it all,

Blinded

By the false gold,

This was not in your mind

When you thought of our

“Great”

Country.

It was in mine.

Have we given up?

Are we truly lost?

Is this a nightmare?

Tell me this is a nightmare.

Reality

Has destroyed me

And now others

Must stand for those

Whose legs are broken,

Speak

For those voiceless thousands.

This is not a nightmare.

Reviews

[Suchita]

A war brews outside-is a title of a poem by me. I can feel your fears-truly, deeply,'madly.' Well done. Good choice of words.

[.shalynn.009.]

The last line sent shivers down my spine. It was like a horror movie, yet it's reality. Well done getting the fearful tone across through your words.

[Keoni]

i know what you mean, the voice is for all, your voice.....this is why you must speak.....

[Adam :P]

wow this is really good!