Darkness And Dawn

• Benjamin McLennan, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2010

Now awaken to nightmares; to darkness and terror, to destruction,
The imprisonment be terrorism, in lands of freedom, is mournful.
Our inability to understand is divisive; all ignorance is obstruction,
All corruption and mindlessness is ultimately a sickness; all scornful.
To grant humanity one eternal day, revelations and enlightenment,
Joy everlasting and tranquility, one opportunity to realise the truth.
One loves for eternity in silence, in mercy and judgement,
To reflect on humanity in infancy, it struggles for proof.
An emptiness of spirit is inevitable for wanderes; a heartbreak,
In division we reamin; our existence the darkness of ignorance.
A leader to gather the tribes; to welcome the daybreak,
Our flawed and reckless path cannot be contiued in silence.
A tireless hero rallies us, beginning an eternity of rebirth,
Now humanity can undertand the design; the restoration of the earth.