These Times Are Just Crying

These times are just crying Full of tears from the clouds Every smile now low-lying Among the streets passing crowds Feelings deep as dark wood Every moment in slippery going For the hate is not understood Of the coming and unknowing Peaceful demonstrations died When shadows fell from the sky Children lay there alongside Mutilated and with tears in eye These times are just crying Nowhere peace around to find Efforts wasted in each trying Love and equality all left behind Where’s love and where’s hope What has brought this darker site? Into hours of ill forsaken grope That wings of hate have trite Feelings deep as dark wood And people losing their freedom Rages and times of orphanhood Life forward steps so worrisome