Weeping world!
Can you hear the world's rueful cries,
As the human conscience fries,
In the fiery furnace of extreme compromise,
Fanned by the flames of extreme lack of compromise,
Shedding tears of war,
Flowing thoughts from an inhuman core,
Fountain of blood from battle,
From unborn children slaughtered like cattle,
Can you hear the thunderous protest of lightening,
Caterwauls which court an enlightening,
Can you hear the quakes,
Protest for the hungry in need of flakes,
What about those who live in abuse,
Abusers in dire need to be disabused,
What about those who mask their fears,
And only their pillows in the mask of night know their tears,
What about the causing of pain,
Which always comes around with more pain/no gain,
What about the suffocation of hope,
Stifling a people's ability to cope,
The world weeps,
So much it causes floods,
The world weeps,
In so much agony the tears are blood.
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