The Boy of Dark

The World has bowed to
Hate
not Love.

In the light of Africa,
the boy of dark skin
has a waterless throat like a flame
and the dull, brown eyes of a mourner.

In the steamy depths of Bangladesh,
the black-haired child screams
as wild things chase after her.

In the hot land of Mexico,
a girl with a caramel face
cries for her dead brother
lost in the bloodlust of a young gunman.

In the death-ridden deserts of Afghanistan
through the dust of pain,
a poor father screams to find his family
murdered by Al-Keida.

In the fallen country of Haiti,
an orphan brown-skinned child
searches for his family
under the ruins of blood-stained buildings.

And the daughter in America,
smiling and laughing as she runs home,
falls into shock
when the sign 'Foreclosure' is stuck into her former lawn
and she stands homeless.

The World is falling to shards
of war, storm, and fire
and the end
will be the fate of humanity
and we are the cause.