My God In You Poem by Eric Cockrell

My God In You



clothes piled in an old van,
just enough gas to go
to another mission....

a slow rain falling
on the bent heads
in the nameless soup line....

homeless men leaving
abandoned factory buildings...
just a place to sleep....

amid the ghosts and lives
forgotten... foreclosed houses,
broken homes, and cheap wine.

young girls selling their souls
on foggy street corners
for a fix.... for forgetting...

the lullabies their daddy's sang,
when life was green, and
love was a prince's dream...

small babies lying at the
sagging breasts of dying mothers,
never having lived....

and the young man hanging
from the rafters of isolation,
and judgement wrought by fear.

some search for God
in temples and holy books...
i found my God in you!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dave Walker 20 September 2011

Great poem. Its sad how the world is today, But while theres money to be made the power That be will never do anything to help people You talk about in your poem. Its left to the Every day person to try and help.

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Declan O Reilly 20 September 2011

Now this is poetry. Harrowing but so poignant. If ever we needed an anthem for the society of today, this is it. Just love the way you depict things. With poets like you we get the conscience of the world.

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