home Poem List next poem National Reflection Having destroyed hardware we turn to dreams Which we once had attempted to instill Instead we nurtured failure's social seams Forcing alternatives by forcing will Shooting looters who abuse liberty Killing after curfews should have been set Ungreatful peoples give sobriety Cause to reflect upon times fate has whet Watching institutional fraud embed Clones of bad structure in other nations Places at the fore movements we once wed To party politics and sensations Religious organizations plied Their immoral traits of personal fraud Arguing everyone who ever tried Has sinned before their grandfather's god Corrupting entries for some future cheat Which some priest intends to accommodate For oaths taken to those he'll never meet Those whose cloaks of love reflect cloaks for hate Hiding genocide behind formal smiles Crippling by displacing dialectics Edge problems pour into memory's files Offsetting those who support world sceptics (c)ERA 01:23 PM 5/17/03