TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

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The trodden wails out...

TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

The body is weak so the soul must speak

The tumult cannot prod so silence must yell at its peak

Triggered miseries would not yield our moans would not heed

If truth must succumb to your gimmickry then rife will be enthroned


If the rod lingers the anguish in our eyes can’t be dethroned

If silence would wail then the deafening clamor should be scorned

If the stillness of our battered eyes can’t tell

Then our lurking woes can’t be spared


Hatred will not budge, so love must wait in the wings

If peace smells then anarchy can’t stink

If your selfishness derides our selflessness

Then your emptiness will nurse our togetherness


If gloom must prevail over light

Then your steps can’t tell their plight

Your indictments convicts our innocence

Our presumed conviction will heighten the decadence


Your greed and apathy have taken love hostage

But our virtues will surely be back on stage

Even if your pride will try to insist

Our inflicted pangs shall certainly resist


If you want us to go downstream at a gallop

Then your weight will betray you like a ballot

For you shall slip downstream at the speed of light

You shall no more be there for us to despise


Giant trees!

Gather all the morning’s dew in the palms of your massive arms

You will split your stalks from its weight

And gleefully we shall take over your fate

 

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shakeme4life commented on TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

10-10-2010

This is a deep poem , but one that speaks of the exhausted periods of seeking common ground from oppression ... great write full of visual pictures and pain indeed

AFIRIQUE

10/10/2010

Thanks Shake. Yes. The oppressed is tormented, and you can feel their wailings in this poem.

GUSTY commented on TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

05-13-2010

IF MY HIDDEN EMOTIONS FOR THIS DULL EVENING ARE AROUSED IT'S THANKS TO THIS EXCELLENT WORK. ALONE IN MY LONELY CORNER YOUR POEM 'MAKE MY NIGHT'. BRAVO!

AFIRIQUE

08/12/2010

May your evening be lit with peace. The angst is this poem is a an irony: The trodden will rise in virtue... AF

WordSlinger commented on TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

01-01-2010

Ya this is great, I love this line///If peace smells then anarchy can’t stink\\\, so true, ty WS

simplynicole commented on TORMENTS OF THE TRODDEN

12-25-2009

This is a great Poem, I read it several times, so much stood out to me like 'Hatred will not budge, so love must wait in the wings...' Love it! Thanks for sharing

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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