A New Dawn

Breaking
Crying out
Just like yesterday
A hellish carbon copy
Lurking behind
A cracked facade
Painted in delirium
Deprived of semblance,
Harmony, world peace
Searing in hatred
Courting heartless
Applause

Runaway hopes
Scorned, defaced
Betrayed, cry out
Like the morning dawn
Seeking faith's light
  Resurrecting prophecies
Sacred and undaunted
Devoid from all
Suffering, pain
Poverty, hunger and
Contempt while
A surly carpetbagger
Is re-selling dawns early
Early crusading light.  

Edwin James

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