While scrolling through images I came across this one from one of my favorite Artists. Salvador Dali has always been a fascination and inspiration to my unique perspective and sometimes bizarre outlook. This work titled “Face Of War” was just screaming to be written on.
Look upon the face of tragedy
Across the world or right next door
See it for what it really truly is
A mechanism for the prevalence of malfeasance
The people stricken with good and honest hearts
Are sent to the front lines to take the flack
Shrapnel of collateral damage and friendly fire
Lay to waste the sensibilities needed to survive
Fat cats, politicians, and the power of wealth
Oil the jaws of the war machine
And mercilessly feed it with our babies
The casualties of so many different wars
Homicide of the human spirit and then some
Wars in name of religion, race or social stand
In foreign lands take their toll on humanity
While civil liberties are crushed under local gavel
Tragedy spawned by tremendous imbalance
Of both hearts and minds alike
Greed and power have made them completely numb
While blind lady justice crumbles under her own weight
Run in circles like rats in a maze
While the onlookers cruelly steal the cheese
A sadistic game of cat and mouse
Strips raw every nerve of those crushed underfoot
The pain of exhausted realization
The futility of the loudest screams falling on deaf ears
The heartlessness of the ugly truth
Being swept under another dirty old rug
We need not look to distant foreign lands
To find the most heinous forms of destruction
They walk mindlessly through the mine fields
These faces of war reside in our own back yard
JMC813 