This is a tale of healing
when all the rifts were through;
I’ll try to tell with feeling,
this tale I tell to you.
Long hours we spent fasting,
agonizing on our knees,
pleading the Everlasting
till at last He heard our pleas.
All round us lay the strife of war
that greed and power wields;
thousands wounded and thousands more
lay dead on battlefields.
Yet problems were unsolved,
nothing was won or gained—
many the sins to be absolved,
the bitterness still remained.
Memories of atrocities
haunted nightmares and dreams—
the razing of whole cities,
raped women’s tears and screams;
the arms and legs dismembered,
wanton acts of revenge —
we trembled and remembered
that rage should not avenge.
We needed love, enough of hate,
our hope was in forgiving —
the one way to recuperate
and start a new beginning…
We buried past and buried dead
and overcame the pain;
repenting, restored God as head,
to resurrect peace again.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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