Ignore Another Genocide

Ignore Another Genocide
© Surazeus
2025 07 26

Dire consequence of eating apple pie 
eludes my sense of star-eyed fantasy 
despite electric warning of the clown 
who cracks jokes on the television screen 
to wake us from despair in sea of lies 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Contaminated karma we exclude 
from international court of despair 
condemns the charismatic criminal 
who struts on bloody stage of history 
to proclaim second coming of the sword 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Face of the angel for heavenly peace 
gleams in the swirling ocean waves of fate 
when we assemble in cathedral air 
to lament how game of life is not fair 
to tender-hearted honesty of faith 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Trapped in the endless wheel of soul rebirth 
by mindless energy of urgent hope 
designed by atomic passion of Earth, 
we party in the summer yard of fame 
to celebrate success of market gains 
so we ignore another genocide. 

While running frantically from gang of thieves, 
who want to sell her body to the king, 
young mother on the misty moors of fear 
drops her baby on the rock of salvation 
and she weeps from shock in gold cage of wealth 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Balanced on the narrow ridge of respect 
for social conventions of wealth from power, 
the grinning jester mocks the haughty king, 
then soars on broken wings of Icarus 
to drop atomic bomb on Hall of Mirrors 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Escaping crowded maze of Babylon 
to build new justice state in Avalon, 
we sail across the sea of persecution 
to wander lost beyond the Promised Land 
till we hide from Death in lush Oregon 
so we ignore another genocide. 

Amazed at beauty of conceptual art 
composed of color smeared on skulls of gods, 
I write names of the dead on marble walls 
inside Global Bank of Financial Desire 
then dance with Miss America all night 
so we ignore another genocide.