there has been a pause
and i acknowledge her
there has been pain
and i let her flow through me
there has been blood
and i allow it to stain the world
there has been tears
and i welcome the drowning
there has been catastrophe and chaos
and tyranny and terror
there has been kindness and killings
and obedience and outcry
there has been times when the World
has rushed past me so fast
that i could barely muster the strength
to pick up a pen and write what i see
there has been infinite moments to feel
and eons that i have already forgotten
there has been the predictable and
inescapable repetition of history and
i have permitted it all to consume me whole
i have made no excuses for my failure
to document, no selfish desire to personalise
the woes of the has been World
and i acknowledge her
there has been pain
and i let her flow through me
there has been blood
and i allow it to stain the world
there has been tears
and i welcome the drowning
there has been catastrophe and chaos
and tyranny and terror
there has been kindness and killings
and obedience and outcry
there has been times when the World
has rushed past me so fast
that i could barely muster the strength
to pick up a pen and write what i see
there has been infinite moments to feel
and eons that i have already forgotten
there has been the predictable and
inescapable repetition of history and
i have permitted it all to consume me whole
i have made no excuses for my failure
to document, no selfish desire to personalise
the woes of the has been World