Lest Evil Wins...

 
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I'm listening to the news; the man-hunt in Boston

I don't want to write but...

If artists forsake canvases

Put down their brushes

If poets dissuade muses

And the sea that rushes

To be spilled on page

While evils rage

And man destroys

While hate employs

Its lethal grief

While disbelief

Rocks to the core

And our tears pour

For those who suffer

First-hand its horror

And as we contemplate

The repercussions of hate

We weep

For its ripples run deep

And yet, if we still brush and pen

Until the evil of evil men

Is over and done

Then, I fear, evil has won.

© Janet Martin

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