A Silent Witness

On and off again Every twelve hours The view comes and goes Night and Day. Touching everything A silent bystander To the toils of men I am the sun, high above Witness to struggles To men trudging below And progress through the ages From baby to adult Witness to battles below Above sitting silent Knowledge overflowing No way to share Watching brothers and sisters Down far below Make the same mistakes As those before Sacrificing it all When a solution, Peaceful and Calm Was in reach Witness to struggle Rifle and cannon shot Mountains of bodies Knowledge overflowing Listening to the screams Lost among others Watching them end One with the others Witness to pain To brothers killing brothers Friends turned on friends Connections lost Sitting high above Sitting on knowledge Of decades and centuries A Witness to the wars