nor silently tread into our homes
no one can call them typical thieves
when they sit in an open hall
adorned with statuary and crushed velvet
two chambers and one oval office
in conflict yet working in concert
stealing our nation slowly across the decades
squandering our blood for ashes and tears
while the busy consumers worry only about
the bills constantly coming due
and someone elses morality
the children! we must protect the children!
if their mothers die? it must be god’s will
god’s will be done even if it creates hell on earth
and the few wept while the many mumbled
they did nothing while the crime was done
unseen before three hundred million witnesses
they did not come in the darkness
nor silently tread into our homes
no one can call them typical thieves
_Kevin Earl Lynch (c) 2007_
