Tears Apart

It is sad that we are

Drowning in our sorrow

While the world crumbles and

Rips itself apart.

Our sorrow mocks us

Causing tears to shed

While a lost boy aches

For his mother

How can these tears that we

Shed give us pity,

And agony of a mother

Not give?

How has shame gone to rot

Among the lying bodies

That are forgotten

Deep in the earth

That trembles and shakes

Like awakened nights

Without a loved one beside us.

The warmth of a touch

On the cold face

Of an infant in an everlasting dream.

While our dreams are forgotten

To chase the smiles

That were once stories being told

Around glowing eyes

Which have become but

Endless terror in an open prison.

As the whistleblower blows the news,

And the falterer hears the sound

On deafening ears it hums.