Love Poem: Babylon
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Written by: John Rhinem

Babylon

Trying to collect the words, the right words 

To describe it all, to see beyond the wall

The walls, of the darkness and the gloom

The paradise amid the doom!?

Doomed it seems, it seems to me

To see, to see beyond the trees....

Thorns, born, torn; piercing my heart, my eyes

Forever darkening skies; this place, this world

History has spoken loud; a blood drenched cloud

Pouring its pain, its endless rain....

Upon all whom have lived, from the beginning of its day

Few have escaped, its shadow draped

A curtain hiding the truth....

But what is truth; truth?!

Roses to thorns, from the time that we're born

Tattered and torn, trying to collect the right words

What words? Could they ever explain, the pages or the pain

These words that they say, that have never changed

That have always remained, their constant....

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....What is truth, here, in, Babylon!?