Darkness

I am not talking about color

By the way any color can be dark

Including white, that’s right

Darkness can mean horror

Death, cruelty, murder, violence

Chaos, evil, Satan and intolerance

Brutality is a form of darkness

Racism is a form of darkness

Deceit is a form of darkness

Invasion is a form of darkness

Darkness does not happen only at night

Darkness can occur under the light

Of the day, when the sun is shining

The parrots talk and sing

Parrots are birds too

And pirates were never good

People, but crazy fools

Who use all types of tools

To attack and kill for food

Fortune and gold. They sue

For no reasons, because they lie

Like frying oil and they will get by

By any means necessary

They’re no different than brutal offenders

They are violent insurgents and vile rioters

Darkness comes at anytime

Darkness is a serious crime

I see real darkness live on TV

Where darkness destroys liberty

Spits and soils the constitution

No, that was not a revolution

That was a modern coup d’état

That was the invasion of darkness

I saw weeping, with my eyes, America

The Beautiful. That was a disgrace

Many people wept and I wept too

That was shocking, crazy and new

I saw horror and darkness

That was an abhorrent mess

Darkness under the Capitol’s light

Has nothing to do with black and white

Greed is a terrible cancer

Racism is a hateful danger

Darkness has no fear for the sun

Darkness fears no laws and no one.

Copyright © January 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved

Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.