The Enemy...

A poem i decided to write on the spot... Once more it is a glimpse into how i view the world...

What is life? What is love?

Is there truly another power from above?

There is so much pain and suffering,

So many children who do not know the feel of mothering.

Too much blood, people with no home,

It makes what should be a peaceful life into a sickening war zone.

Parents watch their children go to fight, 

While men are broken by bloody, horrendous sights.

In history, mistakes are made,

In future, can those lives truly be saved?

There is drink, there is drug, people lose themselves,

They try to escape, to live, to be rid of the habit of living 'on the shelves'.

In this mixing pot, insanity haunts us all,

We tread carefully down life's daunting, unknown hall.

We rely on friendship, family, dreams and hopes,

To shape our destiny and lead us over slippery slopes. 

How can we fight what can't be seen?

It lies within, as deep as a knife is keen.

Our one true enemy, is not each other,

The enemy is ourselves, each and everyone, simply one after another...

Reviews

[Wolfwind]

This piece brings to mind so many topics. I like all the diverse themes that you've strung together here. For some twisted reason though, my mind came up with the image of a giant machine called humanity and as people walk into one end, you see them go through a processing system that turns them into green goo that flows back around and feeds those that are still moving toward the machine.....
But seriously, I think these words do encompass much of what goes on in the world and it is a sad situation. The last line sums it up in it's stark reality. If we the humans of mankind are going to make any fixes, it starts with fixing ourselves.

Great Ink!
Aaron

[Dawn Writer]

Thank you for the great review. It's an interesting image you came up with but it does fit in with the idea, humanity is indeed like a machine in the way it all works and using the image you described it is easy to picture peoples lives metaphorically put into that context.

[S]

beautiful yet very true rhyme...

[Nicholas]

Wow...this is a really powerful piece.

[Dawn Writer]

Thanks. :)

[Nicholas]

You're welcome!