Monday, October 16, 2017

We Fought No War This Time

We fought no war this time to find a time
Without the likes of you who even though Cuba
Is no longer the place you hide your face
And live the life that led to Castro

While we crawled neath our desks and
Received the request to be good Dullian 
Citizens who hate what they create
And anyone they suspect to blame

For the fear of the cloud we brought aloud
In sirens that went off every Wednesday at noon
And warned that soon we would be taken over
By godless Catholics, Baptists, or blacks

In a storm of equality falsely defined in identity
Not in being equal in the eyes of God and law 
With lies and rewrites, you cover yours and others
Eyes with the grey shroud of false wisdom. 

But you don’t care, as you stand right there,
In casinos, liquor, prostitution, and dirty money
As we fight no war this time to find a time
Without the likes of you.  
Without the likes of you. 

Without the likes of you.


© Dennis Wright, 2017

Snowy egret at Key Largo
Photo by William H. Majoros
from Wikimedia Commons

1 comment:

jean said...

This poet is a master at internal rhyme and word sounds within the poem. Excellent!