Has there not been enough killing, enough hate
All centered around religious faith?
Perhaps kindness and love would be a better solution;
Plying our ingenuity to the pursuits of peace and joy
Instead of weapons of human destruction.
Never has there been such a proliferation!
Ever more I believe the right path is unfettered love,
Something we are born with, but many of us lose through cynicism.
Strive to regain it and you may witness the rebirth of childlike joy.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Wounds hidden by smiles
Are at times the most painful
Tears stain their pillows
Post-traumatic stress is real
Even though you can’t see it
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Don’t you ever weary;
War, propaganda, lying
Corrupting your soul,
Disillusioning our minds.
Done with a smile–
You think us likely to believe,
But we can only be fooled for so long.
Loved ones die for your greed,
Laid to waste in foreign lands.
Brought back with thin veiled honors,
Do you think that flag draped coffins comfort?
They do not!
They cannot!
Tell me–how many barrels of oil is their flesh worth,
A few cents at the pump,
A few more billions in your coffers?
They mean nothing to you,
You do not know them,
You have not held them at birth,
You will not grieve for them when they die,
But you surely will forget them as if they never existed.
You should drop to your knees and beg forgiveness,
Confessing your sinful, criminal ways.
Then again why?
It would all be for naught
For even then you would not be saved.
Such is the price paid–
When the seven deadly sins become
…Your lords and masters.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
We live in a time of paranoia and prejudice,
Danger lurking around every corner,
Evil in strangers faces we pass on the street.
Every act of senseless violence is labeled terrorism,
Can not a murder just be a murder?
Despicable as it is this act has transcended our history.
Must religious affiliation define every murderous act?
Must every act of violence be by the hands of a terrorist?
Vigilance is indeed prudent
Though hypervigilance is divisive.
This world if full of people with mental instability.
Those disillusioned by their circumstances.
Many feeling small or invisible
Seeking attention by the most horrible means.
Christians and Jews are among them
Though they are not so quickly label terrorists.
Our government is in collusion with the media
Spreading fear and hysteria, but to what end?
Perhaps to convince us to willingly forfeit our freedoms
All under the guise of greater protection.
Just realize that once gone
Freedoms lost will be difficult to recapture.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Shock of all shocks!, A conclusion has arrived,
What you may ask drove me to this.
I look at this nation and its leaders that drive,
And sadly I find so much amiss.
Squabbling and indecision on the left and the right,
It’s politics at their very worst.
From top to the bottom it’s no easier a fight,
Unable to decide what to do first.
Managing from crisis to crisis is no way to proceed,
As the ball is too easily dropped.
We look to our leaders to stand up and take heed,
Of all that must be started and stopped.
From debt ceiling to healthcare, ebola, ISIS and more,
They fight each other all of the way.
Afraid am I of what may very soon be in store,
For greater horrors may come into play.
We have hearing after hearing and nothing gets done,
They are sound bites for the next campaign.
Fodder for the platform on which they will run,
With lies and aggression to inflame.
I look at the response to ebola with a smile,
This comedy of errors that it is.
The protocols, what protocols all to beguile,
What’s the answer is part of the quiz.
What do we call them–ISIS or Islamic State,
Would somebody make up their mind.
We got into this one perhaps a little too late,
Over time I am sure we will find.
In these two crisis’ congress isn’t without fault,
Ask McCain, he was friend to our foe.
Yelling arm the rebels their advance they will halt,
As always putting on quite a show.
Now congress has called a meeting, the CDC to berate,
For its failure to institute adequate tools.
It was fine leaving West Africa to suffer its fate,
Denying funding like cold hearted fools.
Messages are mixed on all things from above,
Agreeing on nothing is their way.
Failing to compromise when push comes to shove,
I suppose this is how things will stay.
So what is the conclusion from this long winded rant,
More trouble ahead is surely brewing.
Our government is broken and their solutions are scant,
I’m confident they don’t know what they are doing!
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
‘Tis not the fragrant flower I once knew,
Pleasing to the senses,
Brightening the world with her effervescent palette.
Her silky petals crumble, fragile to the touch,
Falling like toxic ash in the putrid air.
She pollutes the earth that feeds her,
Poisoning her waters making them non potable.
Oh how her beautiful bouquet has mutated,
Turning ugly and angry in the midst of the garden.
Those not of her kind are suffocated as weeds,
Trampled, then pulled out by their roots.
Intolerant and hateful she has become,
The prick of her thorns has turned fatal.
Her beauty, now masticated by selfishness
Sets her on a path to destruction.
No longer prized, no longer admired,
She will be turned as mulch–
Into the soil from whence she came.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
See armageddon–
Hiding behind bombs and guns,
Deadly viruses,
Indiscriminate killing,
Murder and mayhem abound!
Worst of man exposed;
What goes around comes around
As the saying goes.
Perhaps we’ve come full circle
To pay for indiscretions.
No nation is safe.
Technology has assured
We are one world.
Hide amongst your ignorance,
But know–it cannot protect.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Deeply I reach into the inner well
In search of peace and love.
Picking it up from where it fell
I push it back up with a shove.
Caught up in emotion of circumstance,
Surrounded by sadness and gloom.
Needing to take a more positive stance
Away from feelings of impending doom.
Emotions running far too high,
My health will be paying the price.
If I don’t allow my anxiety to fly
The outcome won’t be so nice.
So time, it has come to put anger away and connect with the spiritual me,
Hoping this time it will come home to stay and at last I’ll be finally free.
~~ 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 ~~
Sanctity of life
Deepest sadness for the loss
Greatness never known
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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