INDEPENDENCE DAY

[For The Slaughtered Innocents]
(Written on July 4th, 2004)




Are we really independent,

Or are we blindly believing

The lies being told us by warmongers

Lusting after death and destruction?



Is there autonomy between

What the lying politicians say

And the important truths we're hopefully

Coming to learn about war versus peace?



Are we choosing life rather than death

Or are we ignorantly condoning murder,

Blindness not making us any less guilty

For our complicity in the endless slaughter?



Is there the seeking of separation

From the senseless, inhumane carnage,

And only standing for blessed peacemaking,

That mercy which glorifies humankind?



Are we the merciful who are the only ones'

God will have mercy upon in the very near future,

Instead of the unmerciful who will be condemned

As they themselves condemned the weak and innocent?



Where lay our true days of independence?