No Silent Night
No Silent Night
Untaught letter boxes
Trapped in hatred
Bearing false witness, on the front lawn
Statements of hypocrisy
Truth’s allegorical
Framed intolerance on parade
Gifts of belligerence
Wrapped up in a bow
Lives in pieces
Instead of peace on Earth
Cowering in silence
From a fist flung in rage
No silent night for you
Famed aristocracy
Turned taut with democracy
Give shelter from a shattering blow
Cloaked demagoguery
Shamed by the imagery of your thunderous pain
Lives in pieces
No peace on Earth
No peace in the house, no friends or foe
Sing choirs of angels
As blood flows unrepentant
On streets of poverty
Pound shops and cash a cheque
Food banks and mockery
And a drunk who crashed into a tree
Lives in pieces
Instead of peace on Earth
©John de Gruyther 2013
The World Outside the Window 
Powerful piece and very disturbing. A vision of a dystopia that already exists…
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Thanks Rachael, these thoughts and words have troubled me over the whole Christmas period..
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A profound poem, John, for the end of another year. It doesn’t feel like much will be changing in the new year either but the older I get, the less I expect from successive governments and world leaders 😦 Yet I remain a glass half full person, perhaps naively but without hope, what else is there? Wishing you a peaceful 2014 and looking forward to reading more of your thought-provoking poetry 🙂
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Thanks Julie for your kind and interesting comments.. I also look forward to continue reading about your adventures in writing land 🙂
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