Pain and suffering, black verse white
Another reason to divide us
No one is immune, young or old the death toll rises
Denial won’t make it go away
Eventually, it will strike home
Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends everyone knows someone
Ignorance is not bliss
Crises are real as the mass graves reveal.
~~ Dominic DiFrancesco ~~
Snuff the flame,
Choking,
Gasping for air,
To see the end near.
A waft of smoke
Signaling the end.
It cries not for its demise,
Instead standing tall
Amongst molten diversity,
All for the chance to be reborn.
With the next strike
Of the match.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Ego reared it’s ugly head
Needing a way to feed
Demanding sustenance in blood.
Gone is thoughtful consideration
At the hands of incompetence.
Maybe lawful consensus before launch would have
Esured our moral justification…what now?
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Hate and genocide
Born out of Cain’s sinful rage
Still we’re plagued today
Finding new ways to murder
Has become man’s obsession
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The blink of an eye
O’ the marvels of nature
Enough time to kill
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
You non-believers
What will it take for you to
Realize the truth
There are things beyond this world
That none of us can explain
Demons, shadow men
Ghosts lost in between the worlds
This is nothing new
Look back to antiquity
They existed before Christ
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Alone…
All of the friendships in the world do not change that.
Born alone,
Die alone,
No one else can do either for us,
This is as it’s always been.
Looking to God,
Looking to our family,
We look to others for comfort,
But there is nothing,
Only the comfort we find within.
We fool ourselves thinking otherwise.
Why do we look for solace in acquaintances,
Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers;
They cannot travel our journey.
In passing they cannot hold our hands.
This does not mean they do not love us,
Only that they can do nothing,
But wish us well and pray that our journey
Is something greater than a trip to oblivion.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Wasted on the young
I know because I was them once
Stubborn, invincible, I would live forever
Death seemed so far off
On the far side of halfway I want to share my lessons
Maybe this time someone will listen, then again why should this time be different
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
An old nemesis
Fighting against me since youth
Comes again to call,
Trying to snuff my life out
As it’s always wanted to.
Thus far it has lost,
But I am a realist,
One day I will lose
And will have to pay the price…
Until then I choose to live!
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Injustice lives on
Made evident by our courts
Poverty and racism feed its hunger
Until blood is spilled to satisfy
Nothing changes, civil rights are a myth
Insinuated to please the skeptics
Then in one fell swoop
Yet another innocent dies with no justice served
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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