journeys

no answers left—no answers right
  
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.  
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. — Proverbs 31:8-9  
   
.i.  
whichever way i turn  
i see their bridges burn  
no answers left  
no answers right  
no lessons here to learn  
no matter how i yearn  
no answers left  
no answers right  
bangled  
mangled  
tangled  
dangled  
strangled  
sad peoples of the world  
   
.ii.  
the mothers i have seen  
impoverished and lean  
no passions left  
no passions right  
they have no time to wean  
they wither in the green  
no passions left  
no passions right  
conceived  
retrieved  
deceived  
bereaved  
aggrieved  
spent mothers of the world  
   
.iii.  
their children in the streets  
no haven for retreat  
no rations left  
no rations right  
a journey of defeat  
with nothing left to eat  
no rations left  
no rations right  
sighing  
crying  
trying  
lying  
dying  
lost children of the world  
   
.iv.  
working the meagre wage  
guised slavery an outrage  
no justice left  
no justice right  
converting straw to bricks  
dense power politics  
no justice left  
no justice right  
sired  
wired  
hired  
tired  
fired  
worn workers of the world  
   
.v.  
rejected to the side  
no pride or shame to hide  
no mercy left  
no mercy right  
no safe place to abide  
compassion here has died  
no mercy left  
no mercy right  
groping  
sloping  
moping  
coping?  
hoping  
starved peasants of the world  
   
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by Clyve A. Bowen♫