Consternation kills;
Turning inward the faint heart,
Swallowing them whole.
Such is the fear mongers goal,
To scare the masses to death.
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Played time and again,
Fear worse than reality,
Still we never learn.
There is great strength in numbers
If we’d only stand as one.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
They only win if you live in fear
Envisioning terror around every turn
Red, blood red keeps you awake at night
Rendered by the media and the radical’s might
Only you can stem this terrible tide
Ridding the world of their plague that imbibes
Impending doom is what they so desire
Stifling of hope for a future that’s bright
Tell them their end lies in the approaching hour
Standing as one–their fates are most dire
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Look at our future.
Will it be one of terror
Frightening our young
Or will it be one of hope.
Shouldn’t it be obvious?
I question mankind,
So very illogical
In his foolish ways.
Repeating failed history
With the very same results.
So lets march our way
On this road to destruction
Like the sheep we are;
Believing all that we hear
Into the fateful abyss.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Ignorance under a religious guise
Soiling the good name of those who follow God in peace
Inciting fear and bloodshed amongst your brothers
So you can selfishly reap the benefits of this world
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Wheels of bloody war continue to turn,
Backing foreign rebels whose motives unclear.
While villages and cities continue to burn
We’re spoon fed a diet of who we should fear.
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Millions of dollars to be funnelled covert,
To whom we don’t know, just trust us we’re told.
Protecting our interests how could it possibly hurt,
This story gets older the more that it’s told.
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Creating future enemies with training and guns,
A lesson that we still have not learned.
Viewed by the world as reincarnated Huns,
Our reputation, our flag once again burned.
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Another “War on Terror” with no defined win
A phrase perhaps coined oh so rightly
Though resources and patience are stretched ever so thin
We’re lied to with teeth clenched so tightly
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We’re told this is for the protection of all,
As if we couldn’t see through their disguise.
It’s all about profit and a wealth of crude oil
Wrapped in “freedoms” meager blanket of lies.
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Our love for our cars, our boats, our planes
And all things founded on fossil fuels.
We take what we want without easing their pains
Makes us look like great bullies and fools.
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Then they claim concern for the welfare of man
When it’s really nothing more than an act.
Money and greed and taking all that they can
Is an evident though an oft denied fact.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Sullen is my heart
For the deaths of our brethren
And our enemies
In the end we gain nothing
But continued violence
Rejoice not in death
Instead mourn every life lost
With deepest regret
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
History repeats
When in the hands of such fools
Yet we act as sheep
Why no popular outrage
Why no rolling of their heads
In conflict we lose
Covert forces we back turn
Unleashing turmoil
Whose weapons do they use…ours
Perpetuating terror
Al-Qaeda is ours
A monster we created
Now there is ISIS
Born of a foul petri dish
What could we have expected
When we choose to interfere
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Brother fights brother
Will expressed through violence
So death marches on
All for ideology
Refusing to live on peace
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Rain fell torrential and strong
Thunder clapped and lightning struck
Reminiscent of Stoker won’t be long
Unless God grants us a little luck
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Lightning flashed ‘cross blackened sky
Through gothic windows cast shadows eerie
I hope and pray I do not die
In castle dark on this night so dreary
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Surely my mind must be playing tricks
These things I see must not be real
A touch of flu, I must be sick
For if I’m wrong then my fate is sealed
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As shutters bang in wind and rain
A winged creature I thought I saw
With eyes glowing red am I insane
Rush I must, the curtains draw
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A bang, a scratch on windows glass
I hide my face in fear a dream
A few long seconds the sound did pass
Minutes though it surely seemed
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Then silence befell the musty room
A nightmare dream it must have been
Escape this place, this horrid tomb
Uncovering my eyes I turned a grin
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Lo’ I find I am not alone
In shock I stumbled and couldn’t speak
Fear on my face I must have shown
Evidenced by wrinkle of widows peak
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Eerie white and dressed in black
This fiend of fiction now stood before
I must admit I was taken back
Turning to run for bedroom door
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Faster than a blink he blocked my way
In fear I trembled where I stood
Not a sound or word did he say
Under his cloak and silken hood
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Then he scoffed deep and dark
The room took on a ghastly chill
Deadly silence no cricket or bark
A scream did emanate cold and schrill
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Frightened I fell on bended knee
His putrid breath upon my neck
The room went dark I could not see
On whole of my life did I reflect
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Grasping tightly with claw-like fingers
Hoisting me like a childs toy
Growing intensity my terror lingers
My heart and soul he seeks destroy
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In a moments notice warmth I feel
A peace then fire runs through my veins
The slightest pinch in fog concealed
Monsters fangs they cloud my brain
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I feel and smell the blood-soaked cotton
A trickle down my trembling arm
My wound it reeks of flesh gone rotten
Life is held in mortal harm
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Again a laugh born of Satan’s Hell
Rings as unreal in dreary dream
My will to live dissolved in his spell
Nothing exists but him it would seem
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This oddest of feeling from head to toe
My body and soul no longer of this world
Allegiance to him now must I show
Though why or how my thoughts he unfurled
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He spoke in a tongue unlike my own
Though strangely understood by chance
You’ll never escape, I’ve returned you home
To eternity lived under Dracula’s trance
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Its hard to believe that it is but a short dozen years
A dozen years since this world changed
Changed a nation and its ideals
The ideals founded on a promise gave way to extremism
An extremism not so unlike that of the terrorist
The terrorist has taken away our freedoms
Our freedom to assemble, our right to privacy
Privacy is a thing of the past taken away by our government
Our government says they must take it to protect us
Protect us from whom, who will protect us from them is the question
Questioning however, is taken as unpatriotic
Unpatriotic! This is our right and our duty as citizens
Citizens who have become nothing but pawns
Pawns to governmental corruption and big business
Business’ who are now treated as citizens by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court who was supposed to keep the executive and legislative in check have let us down
Down are path I fear is collapsing
Collapsing with each step we take down the road
A road, one way, on which their is no return
Oh…to return our moral compass to true
Truly that would be our greatest strength
Strength of character, morals, of humanity that we so long ago lost
Lost to our greed, selfishness and intolerance
Intolerance for ourselves, other nations, other ideals
Ideals that were long deceased before September 11, 2001
September 11, 2001 was just another nail
A nail in a coffin already occupied
Occupied but not inescapable if we would try
Try to resurrect the intentions of our founding fathers
Fathers far wiser than the lot of thieves currently in office
Offices held by both parties
Parties that no longer represent the people
A people that deserve better
Better than to live without freedom, in oppression and under tyranny
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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