Ghetto Cries

Ghetto Cries

Thou shall hear the ghetto’s cry

Knights of armor

Battles and foe

Hear the woe

How they die

Kings of art 
within their hearts

Quests of bravery

Bathe in chivalry

Leaders of battles fought

Listen to voices of ghettos
  dry coarse tones
the isolated try to get there
where battles are caught

A child of royalty 
born in misery
seeking toys in mysteries
in high class trash weep

 Hopeless seek

Queens trying to survive
from the ghettos cry
a place she applies
a throne to survive

Knight of honor

Still wishes to survive

In battles of swords

of guns and lords

His royalty dries

In suffering eyes

When battles are lost

The innocent die

Lords and knights

Heroic illusions

Die in ghettos

With spiritual confusion

Every day and  night

The king lies in pain

Wounds leave scars

Thou shall hear the ghetto’s cry

© Author Lynda Ferrer/RR2014