Darkness Hovers

Grey clouds block the horizon where the sun is trying to peak its head,

Bird’s whistle their morning tune to say hello as they rise from their bed,

Striking white light peaks from behind those black curtains trying to shine,

As the sun slowly rises in her dawn, highlighting the horizon’s outline.

**

Pitter patter of raindrops begin to fall upon heated roofs, cooling the air,

As the world begins to waken, the darkness is distributed elsewhere,

Families get lost in their daily routines, living on auto pilot, totally unaware,

Listening to the news, the haunting misdeeds that don’t affect them, without a care.

**

In the next suburb over a wife is beaten by her husband, breakfast was burnt,

Doesn’t she realise he is only trying to teach her obedience, why hasn’t she learnt?

Her neighbours hear her screams, but then that’s a daily occurrence, a regular tune,

So much so that they now hardly notice as they’ve grown totally immune.

**

As the daylight grows bolder there’s a little girl lying crying in her bed,

Remembering the things Daddy did to her last night, praying she was dying instead,

She’s well aware life is wrong, this is not how her life should have panned out,

Doesn’t she deserve better? Sadly, she’s now consumed with doubt.

**

TV’s throughout the city begin to broadcast a new newsflash,

A forewarning to stay away from certain streets due to a horrific crash,

The unthinkable has happened, there’s a shooter standing high upon a ridge,

And he’s raining bullets down on the cars crossing the main bridge.

**

The daily newspaper’s front page has a headline stating a body’s been found,

A young teenage girl recently kidnapped has been murdered without a sound,

She’s been thrown aside on a path that runs through the local woods,

As if she was trash, to be thrown out and discarded with other broken goods.

**

While just next door to some kind hearted soul, lives a mother struggling with it all,

Tired of the constant screaming of her newborn, who does nothing but bawl,

So she hatches a plan to escape, one that will fix her problems in one clear sweep,

She mixes the poison used so both her and her baby slip into an everlasting sleep.

**

All this has happened before the sun crests the noon sky, now shining hot,

And the world keeps turning, casting a blind eye to the deeply hidden rot,

The human race prefers to wear blinkers to the torment of a pure stranger,

Until devastation hits home when they realise their own love ones are in danger.

**

Evil exists in the darkness of our underworld, spilling into every day life,

A mother loses a child, a son a father, a friend loses a friend, a husband a wife,

Miscreants wander our every day streets, invisible to the kindness of our heart,

As we live isolated, in our own little world, refusing to acknowledge the dark.

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