Weeping for the World
by RC DeWinter
Title
Weeping for the World
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils
Description
Copyright 2012 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Not Today
Don't whine to me about your petty woes,
the car that doesn't start, the faucet's incurable drip,
I can't be bothered with it now!
Yes, another day I would tsk-tsk
and share your righteous bourgeois indignation,
muttering discontent about politics,
the evils of dependence on fossil-fueled transport,
the perfidy of plumbers whose every remedy is unavailing
in the war of water versus washer - but not today!
Today I weep for people; I cry for half the world:
innocent victims of every color, every god,
caught in the crossfire of the few, the proud, the greedy,
who peddle their cheap philosophies for sale to the highest bidder.
So sick am I of pissing matches in the sand,
a new line drawn every week, every month.
Every time it seems that hope might bloom
in some far-flung oasis of sanity
a fresh new hell gapes wide, to swallow whole the cries of those
who clamor for a peaceful life - no more, no less.
Tell me tomorrow about your wretched in-laws
who every Christmas buy you Scotch when you drink gin,
the scheming paperboy who tosses today's bad news into
the rainsoaked bushes rather than upon your columned porch,
and curse I will with you the inconvenient idiocy
surrounding our benighted daily lives.
But not today -
today I weep, today I mourn, today I spend in sorrow
for the little people - all of us - yes! you and me -
whose fate is fodder for the few.
~ copyright 2005, renewed 2012 RC deWinter
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Comments (18)
Jennifer Kuehne
This painting is already poetry... even if you hadn't adorned it with such a powerful & profound verse ! What art hopes to be , RC ! l/f
Dagmar Helbig
Your impressive, beautiful picture brought me to your wonderful words, an exceptional discovery, Dagmar
Madalena Lobao-Tello
CONGRATULATIONS!! Featured on Female Artists - Creative Women!!! Absolutely fabulous artwork! Very well done!!!! Voted