have i now lived this life long enough
to be tasting the bitter tears
of history repeating itself
as I reflect upon yesterdays wasted call
to let us all walk together hand in hand
long enough to know how jaded is the dream
there would ever be a promised land
as now i turn around to see
dead bodies cast about the streets
where is this exalted life of harmony
when words of wisdom that we speak
have soured to meaningless rhetoric
to give us comfort in our sleep
whilst evil slumbers too
and we turn yet another cheek
and so... where do we go from here
for again we shall fool ourselves
believing blessed utopia is ever near
and yes... I too will hide from the claws of evil
which still scratch at my face
as I seek to deny
my self destructive premonition
of this, our human race