~*A Siren's Lullaby*~

~* A Siren's Lullaby*~

Softly but surely heavy feet greet the earth
Eyes graze the trail ahead, lacking all mirth
Numb are the senses to the breeze in the air
When eyes, lips and ears have collided with despair

With each step forward, a memory forces back
As a mind tries to distinguish between lie and fact
Unjust is each old and new page of history
As one after the other is unable to depict reality

Feathers fall as all eyes somberly gaze above
Tears pour down from a wounded white dove
Enraged are the invisible blackened skies
Arduous to visualize the next clear sunrise

Across torn lands and beaten souls
From each like a Siren a lullaby unfolds
Little eyes curious of the story she knows
As white crystals break from her eyes, her rhyme goes:

‘Sleep little ones, it is not yet time
But I’ll tell of a story, and to the first I’ll give a dime
Close your eyes, o, dream of yellow and green
Yes, smile, do hold on to the beauty you’ve seen

‘Tune out the screams, the heart aching cries
Listen to your mind’s own fantasies and lullabies
Should the grounds lurch you forward, have no fear
‘Tis only the effect of my drawing you near…

There was once a boy who owned vast lands
Who’d never known their worth, for them had no plans
And like the eagle’s swiftness upon capturing his prey
Some then more, were able to seize them their way…

Try as he might to correct his mistakes
Racing in all directions, to get a piece of his cake
And then to run in his lands, became an access denied
An us and them, between humans a miserable red divide

Oh the thousand and one times he had cried in ache
When the hands of mercilessness on his life would strain
To brothers so dear, so near, so …distant
Had been vowing their best, but were gone in an instant

They were seen as complacent, apathetic, and full of greed
Visible when it was time to fulfill a dire need
But blame them not, for each had plagues of their own
A mask of contentment for so long each had donned…

One had riches the Insiders could not compare
Some were envious, some would ask to share
And the Outsiders of course could not idly stand
Whatever it’d take, they’d see to fill each hand

He finally became reliant on the Outsiders too much
Upon that realization, too strong was the clutch
He thought he’d be fine, suffer no great deal
Until their troubles hit him, knocking him head over heel

The other was determined to live life in peace
Wanted serenity, a mind at complete ease
Riches of another kind filled his land
For truth and loyalty would obey every command

But to invest in them his attempts were undermined
By some who feared they’d no longer continue to rise
And so gone to waste, the riches with no use
And slipped did loyalty for righteousness and truth

‘ Make no mistake when these riches are combined
Could unsettle grounds and face the strongest of tides
But each brother in his own wretchedness he cannot wake
Unable to see the wrongful steps he shall undertake

Each is not attuned to the sorrow of his lands
That cripples their bodies to unite and band
The agonies of stomachs, the cries of insecurity
Diseases, massacres, and infant mortality

Can they ever taste the rain, that tastes of fire?
Or hear children in various pains, their cries rising higher?
Or smell the air that for some is a deadly feat
Can they imagine bodies once known lain at their feet?

How much can hearts swallow of black and grey?
How do the brothers sleep at night, for what do they pray?
There can exist no dark without a speck of light
But so it remains, upon grasp will the time be right?

Do not trouble yourselves, my dearest dears
He who hath created all can hear the drops of our tears
If they cannot give us the life they are responsible for
Sleep as you do now..in Eden we shall have more…..’

The grounds shake with vengeance as the children sleep
Her eyelids close, her last breath she draws in deep
Where they once lay, in mere seconds, they were no more
A page in history that will never be accounted for…



____________________________Copyright Reem S. 2009____________________________