In the Synagogue of Graying Ashes
Moses calls down from the Mount
"I have a sign"
In anger, either side fails to give an inch,
one side with fighter planes and nuclear arms
the other with AK 47's and the arms of children
flinging rocks at tanks, destroying hope.
The lady in her sitting room in every lounge
in front of every TV set that shows
the fight as a fair representation
of every fight in every nook and cranny
of this Earth,
dwindling apace into rampant obscurity.
The UN proclaims from every roof top
in every country, in all languages
"We have seen a sign"
yet those words continue to dwindle
in the reality of human existence.
A caveman once hit a belligerent brother
(who had designs on his woman),
another caveman stood atop a small hillock
in deepest Africa and proclaimed
"In the ashes of my fire, I see society
and in society I see a way ahead"
yet another caveman, with long hair,
on hearing the words, formed another tribe
one that disagreed with the portent of hell,
his own ashes, however, showed the same dismal future.
Moses calls down from the Mount
"I have a sign"
In anger, either side fails to give an inch,
one side with fighter planes and nuclear arms
the other with AK 47's and the arms of children
flinging rocks at tanks, destroying hope.
The lady in her sitting room in every lounge
in front of every TV set that shows
the fight as a fair representation
of every fight in every nook and cranny
of this Earth,
dwindling apace into rampant obscurity.
The UN proclaims from every roof top
in every country, in all languages
"We have seen a sign"
yet those words continue to dwindle
in the reality of human existence.
A caveman once hit a belligerent brother
(who had designs on his woman),
another caveman stood atop a small hillock
in deepest Africa and proclaimed
"In the ashes of my fire, I see society
and in society I see a way ahead"
yet another caveman, with long hair,
on hearing the words, formed another tribe
one that disagreed with the portent of hell,
his own ashes, however, showed the same dismal future.
