Overlords of War

The overlords of war are triumphant.

From their iniquitous lair of crony capitalism.

Modern day conquistadors

Robbing children of childhood

Orphaning millions.

In their ecstasy of fear and rage

destroying the divinity of Life.

Aah you wounded demagogic men

Dancing strife in shadows of concrete catacombs.

Where darkness is the heart of calcified whiteness.

Carrying the genocide of its enslaving colonial past.

Turning children into ancestors

Again.

Knowest that your bullets

Marked with the names of innocent women and children

Will haunt our humanity.

A deadly payload scarring unending generations

Drenching blood on blossoms of hope

of a scorched land.

Aah the spineless leadership in our world.

Impotent. Manacled by elites

of a bio-military industrial complex.

A compromised media

Running death as a soap opera

Spinning the shallowness of powerful interests

In a geopolitical blitzkreig.

We don’t have to fight the wars of generations that have passed.

It’s time to surrender to hope.

To gather in our homes and communities.

Grandmothers. Students. Women.

In our churches, synagogues, mosques and temples.

Sowing new seeds of peace.

Knitting stitches to heal our brokenness.

And wounds of distant pasts

With love and courage.

🙏🏾💚💜❤️