Tag Archives: violence

Look Within Your Heart My Wayward Son

Look within your heart my wayward son

To where your ancestry lies

At gun’s molten barrel the war won’t be won

No matter how hard you might try

 

Where did your fathers and mothers come from

No doubt from a long distant shore

Once arriving in America their journey’d begun

Facing more than their hopes bargained for

 

Fiery rhetoric from the ignorant right

Does nothing but insight hate filled fear

Isolating newcomers who fled terrors fight

Disillusioning their wish to be here

 

It’s amazing how little this nation’s progressed

Seeing prejudice and racism rear their heads

Taking one step forward then two we regress

Giving in to the hate mongers dread

 

Perhaps it is time we holster our guns

And temper our fork tongued speech

Instead doing what America should have done

Practicing exactly what we preach

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

We Dilute Ourselves

We dilute ourselves

Believing terrorism

Is new to our shores.

How ‘bout Oklahoma City,

The Olympic Park

Or Ted Kaczynski.

Maybe Newtown rings a bell

Perhaps Columbine;

A seemingly endless list

And not a single Muslim.

More often than not

Terrorists look just like you.

Scary isn’t it?

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Fear Masquerading

Fear masquerading–

A disguise for the hatred

Lodged in feeble minds.

Isolationism calls

To quell the terror within.

Still you don’t see it,

You are giving them the win

And emboldening.

While we can’t change our sordid past

We can and must change our future

For the good of all mankind.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

50 Word Story: In the Crystal Blackness…

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In the crystal blackness of the nighttime sky the golden tail of some terrestrial body illuminates the heavens.  Perhaps it is the contrail of some alien ship looking down upon this sad misguided world knowing that soon all of this could be theirs as we perish by our own hands.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Signs of Things to Come

Signs of things to come

Unrest all over the world

We reap what we sow

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

He’s Called By Many Names

He’s called many names

God, Rom, Allah, Krishna, Christ

All are names of peace

It’s man who is violent

Not the Gods whom they worship

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Fields of History

Fields of history

Strewn with blood and with corpses

Religions finest

Left to rot in their God’s sun

Could it be no one was right

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Maybe I Missed It…

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Maybe I missed it…

When we became anointed

Rulers of the world,

Taking nation’s resources,

Conquering their citizens.

 

And tell me for what?

Could it be for our profit

As it always is?

All the savages be damned

They can’t stop us anyway!

 

But the refugees,

The wars and the violence…

This isn’t our fault.

Why take blame for our actions

When you can blame someone else.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Barbed Wire Gauntlet

Barbed wire gauntlet

Raised to stem the human tide,

Too much too quickly.

Balancing fear with chaos…

Another iron curtain.

 

Displaced and hopeless,

Longing for Europe’s safety,

Left in no-man’s land.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Gangrenous is Hate

Gangrenous is hate,

Leeching on healthy tissue

‘Til decay consumes.

 

Once done…tell me what is left,

But a hollow corpse seething.

 

Such a waste of life.

O’ the good you could have done

Were you not selfish.

 

Alas free will corrupted

Leaving you ever bitter.

 

Your path is your own;

Be happy in this karma

Brought about by you.

 

May you take it to the grave

So the world might benefit.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~