Darkness Poem by Hebert Logerie

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.