As the future is submerged with despair
Forces of disarray tearing each other apart,
Deteriorating. degrading and destroying
Delivering blossoming grief, so suffocating,
With two countries.side by side suffering
One far more, with daily iniquity and cruelty,
While bombs rain down with twisted agony
Creating so much sadness and brutality,
Out of the bowels of malevolence and carnage
There is a pallid light struggling to shine,
Carried through the continuing darkness
To infiltrate broken minds and hearts,
In these times of sadness and madness
Pain numbing deep inside, instead of gladness,
Let our poems keep on delivering illumination
In orange and bronze, at least autumn has arrived,
Allow things of goodness continue to inspire
From the tiniest bug to this beautiful planet itself,
Everything is tied together by the thread of life
We must use this to embroider carefully,
Among life's cruelty allow love to sustain
To distinguish and vaporise the pain,
Against the rages and ravages of war
Under the stars and guiding moonlight
Empower voices to be used for peacefulness ·
Fill your soul and mentality with tenderness,
Breathing in silence, realise all life is precious
Sparkling with countless harmonious grace,
At daybreak the hourglass releases tiny diamonds
Beyond prisms of blackness, sparkling in abundance,
Cycles of smiles and laughter, scattering all the hate
Enabling hope to rise, before it's too bloody late.
