Classic Contradictions Poem by Jason Robert Britt

The sun comes up, the sun goes down,
The moon smiles, and then it frowns.
The tides come in, and then wash out;
After harvest will reign the drought.

Hear the calm before the storm?
Such silent screams stillborn to warn;
In the land of milk and honey,
Cities burn as fast as money.

Paranoid schizophrenic;
Everyone is swimming in it.
Drown like fish out of the bowl,
Drinking smog and liquid coal.

Sad our cultural contradictions,
Birth holy wars and mass affliction.
Forgive your foes and the uncouth,
Or eye for eye and tooth for tooth?

In His moment on the cross,
Life was found, life was lost;
Perfection's lips asked in irony,
'Why hast thou forsaken me? '