The Bloody Battle

The Bloody Battle

Droping down

to sit below the world

I watch in utter despair

as those I called friends

those I called allies 

destroy themselves

kill each other from deep within

Hopeless I watch

without out knowing 

what I could do to stop it all

So reaching up

I pull myself

up and out 

from below

and I reach out to everyone I can reach

I whisper in their ears

and I tell them 

secrets, wonderful beautiful secrets

about themselves

the secrets they don't know

I tell them

what they can become

but only if they put down that sword

that gun

and walk away peacefully

as some begin to walk away

I begin to smile as I go about my journey

The hardest journey of my life

 the hardest challenge 

to help others help themselves

yet as I watch a few turn back to battle

and it hits me

I cant help those blood thirsty for battle

they need to help themselves first

watching once more yet this time from a cloud

a cloud once white 

now full of my tears

of my pain

and as it fills full of tears

it breaks and splatters the ground below

and at first the battle continues on below

then as the hurt from within all

erupts into lightning and thunder

the people begin to run

they begin to help each other 

as they all search for a place of shelter

and I begin to laugh

for the irony of it all

natures hand in our life's can be

a most hidden 

yet most marvelous blessing given to us mere mortals

here below the 

one and only....

© June 13, 2012 (Emma Joy Huls)