Poetry Post 163

Pro Peace Anti Establishment
How can a man of peaceful principle be a fool?
What is there about brotherly love you can ridicule?
How can peace be the wrong way to rule?
How can peace, love and understanding be so naive?
What is there in hate, apathy and greed to believe?
What kind of establishment would they achieve?
How come we never tried peace over war?
How come we kill anyone who has ever tried before?
How can human authority define our morals anymore?

Beatitudes Of Humanity
God bless the alien resident
Persecuted by the state government
God bless the widow and fatherless child
Who by scornful words are defiled
God bless the starving and the afflicted
By those who God's Law they contradicted
God bless those struck by poverty
Who in courts can't afford to be free
God bless the exploited laborer
Who is left feeling like a corporate whore
God bless the victim of violence
Killed at another man's expense
God bless the hungry and the thirsty
Who know not where their next meal may be
God bless the stranger
Assumed a danger
God bless the naked, the sick and the imprisoned
Who are left friendless without provision
God bless those overlooked
By the accountant's book
God bless the men of a foreign nation
Righteous despite alienation
God bless those seeking to save the Earth
Trying to prove their salvation's worth

Music Of You
I'm listening to the sad music of men who never knew you
When you know what they're missing you can see their point of view
It is as if they've been waiting for you to come to them
You can hear it in their music playing like a hymn
But in ignorance and want it comes off like a dirge
Or like a simpleton looking for a muse to forge
I hope my song of you shows better appreciation
For my wandering heart's hopeful destination